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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hypnos?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Argos.
(d) Somnus.

2. Where was "The Other Gods" first published?
(a) The United Amateur.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) The Fantasy Fan.
(d) The Fantasy Reader.

3. Who wrote the opening quote, in the short story "Hypnos"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Mary Shelley.

4. What does Altberg find coming from the temple, in "The Temple"?
(a) Music.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Light.
(d) Evil.

5. What killed Musides, in the end of "The Tree"?
(a) An evil spirit.
(b) The olive tree.
(c) A giant rock.
(d) A sea-creature.

6. Where have men "heard the sighs of the gods in the plaintive dawn-winds," in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Lerion.
(b) Ngranek.
(c) Kadath.
(d) Thurai.

7. Who engaged in heavy drinking and reveling in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) Romnod.
(b) The king.
(c) The prince.
(d) Celephais.

8. What rank is Altberg, in "The Temple"?
(a) Officer.
(b) Major.
(c) General.
(d) Lieutenant-Commander.

9. What is described as near the olive grove in "The Tree"?
(a) A castle.
(b) A well.
(c) A temple.
(d) A tomb.

10. What does the narrator do to the machine, in "From Beyond"?
(a) Steals it.
(b) Shoots it.
(c) Sells it.
(d) Buys it.

11. How old is the stranger the narrator meets, in "Hypnos"?
(a) Almost 20.
(b) Almost 60.
(c) Almost 40.
(d) Almost 30.

12. Who is the dean of the medical school, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Halsey.
(c) Morris.
(d) Slater.

13. What does Iranon do as he travels in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) Paints portraits.
(b) Sings.
(c) Sells jewels.
(d) Sells books.

14. What can Tillinghast's machine activate, in "From Beyond"?
(a) The thyroid gland.
(b) The endocrine gland.
(c) The pineal gland.
(d) The pituitary gland.

15. How is the stranger dressed whom the narrator encounters, in "Hypnos"?
(a) In black.
(b) In white.
(c) In blue.
(d) In red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herbert West use to reanimate dead bodies?

2. In "Herbert West-Reanimator," West develops a theory that the human body is entirely what?

3. Who died before his friend, in "The Tree"?

4. Who dies in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?

5. Who tells the stranger about Aira, in the end of "The Quest of Iranon"?

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