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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. What does Tillinghast tell the narrator they are viewing with the machine on, in "From Beyond"?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Another reality.
(d) His dreams.

2. Where does the narrator meet the stranger, in "Hypnos"?
(a) A train station.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A morgue.
(d) A cemetery.

3. What does one of the officers of the submarine find and take on board, in "The Temple"?
(a) A gold figurine.
(b) An ivory figurine.
(c) A silver ring.
(d) A gold ring.

4. In what war do the narrator and West volunteer, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Civil War.

5. What British freighter is destroyed, in "The Temple"?
(a) The Victory.
(b) The Lady Mercy.
(c) The Spirit of St. Louis.
(d) The White Knight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Altberg do once the cameras are turned off, in "The Temple"?

2. Where do the gods of earth dwell in "The Other Gods"?

3. Lovecraft writes in "The Other Gods," "But now they have betaken themselves to unknown ____ in the cold waste where no man treads."

4. What is the young apprentice priest's name, in "The Other Gods"?

5. Who is the dean of the medical school, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the top of the mountain in "The Other Gods"? What do they do?

2. How does "From Beyond" end? How does the narrator escape?

3. What does the olive tree do in the ending of "The Tree"?

4. What happens to Altberg's crew after the ivory figurine is brought aboard the craft?

5. What is the objective of Barzai, in "The Other Gods"?

6. Where does "The Other Gods" take place? Where have this setting and some characters been seen previously?

7. What does Altberg do with the British soldiers, in "The Temple"? What happens after they resurface?

8. Describe the style and themes in "The Other Gods." Where is the horror in the story?

9. How does Altberg's vessel become trapped, in "The Temple"?

10. Who is Crawford Tillinghast? What is his obsession?

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