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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The patient in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" has night rants that are described as extremely what?
(a) Violent.
(b) Endangering.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Literate.

3. Who are the enemies of the people of Olathoe, in "Polaris"?
(a) Intutus.
(b) Alhtohans.
(c) Inutos.
(d) Antigans.

4. When was the story "Polaris" written?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1931.

5. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?
(a) Alhtoa.
(b) Kadiphonek.
(c) Olathoe.
(d) Lomar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Polaris another name for?

2. What lures the narrator to sleep, in "Polaris"?

3. 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"?

4. Who attacked the sailor's ship in "Dagon"?

5. How did the sailor escape the island in "Dagon"?

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