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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is on the white ship seen by the narrator, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A beautiful woman.
(b) A sea-god.
(c) A bearded man.
(d) A mermaid.

2. In "Celephais," Kurane is described as a what?
(a) Dreamer.
(b) Reveller.
(c) Singer.
(d) Dancer.

3. Who attacked the sailor's ship in "Dagon"?
(a) Americans.
(b) Italians.
(c) French.
(d) Germans.

4. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?
(a) Cathuria.
(b) Thalarian.
(c) Xura.
(d) Sona-Nyl.

5. The people of Sarnath do what to the beings of Ib?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Trade with them.
(c) Exile them.
(d) Worship them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" set?

2. When does the author write in "Polaris," "the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon"?

3. Where do the narrator and his companion not enter because only demons and madmen can live in that city, in "The White Ship"?

4. What is the name of the sailor Kurane hires, in "Celephais"?

5. What does a boy messenger report seeing, surrounding the cotter's house, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the townspeople discover in the ending of "The Cats of Ulthar"?

2. What happens to the narrator, in the ending of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"? Where does the light being go?

3. Describe the narrator of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep." How does he introduce the story?

4. What is the setting of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"? How does the narrator describe the location?

5. What strangers arrive in Ulthar? How are they described in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

6. Where is the monolith in "Dagon"? What does the sailor find there?

7. How is the land of Zar described in "The White Ship"? How is Thalarian described?

8. Describe the beginning of "Polaris." Where is the narrator?

9. What happens to Kurane in the ending of "Celephais"?

10. How long is the hero's journey to Cathuria in "The White Ship"? What happens in the end of the story?

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