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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The White Ship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

2. What is Polaris another name for?
(a) Aquarius.
(b) Orion.
(c) The Big Dipper.
(d) The North Star.

3. What is the narrator's position in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Professor.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Medical internist.

4. How did the sailor escape the island in "Dagon"?
(a) A plane took him.
(b) He forgot.
(c) An ambulance arrived.
(d) He rode the creature.

5. What happens to Slater in the end of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) He dies.
(b) He wakes up.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He gets married.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?

2. What is the narrator to do if the Inutos gain the upper hand in the battle, in "Polaris"?

3. What does the sailor in "Dagon" find on the monolith on the island?

4. What happens to the lake in the ending of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

5. What did the sailor awake to find himself surrounded by in "Dagon"?

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