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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Doom that Came to Sarnath.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" first published?
(a) Fantasy Reader.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) The Amateur.
(d) Pine Cones.

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

3. The god the beings of Ib worship is described as a great what?
(a) Lion.
(b) Cat-being.
(c) Water lizard.
(d) Whale-man.

4. What is the name of the land in which the narrator finds himself dreaming, in "Polaris"?
(a) Kadiphonek.
(b) Olathoe.
(c) Alhtoa.
(d) Lomar.

5. What does the narrator long to be, but was found unworthy, in "Polaris"?
(a) A prince.
(b) A king.
(c) A warror.
(d) A shepherd.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what anniversary do the people of Sarnath complain of seeing the long dead mysterious creatures around town?

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

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

4. Once the narrator hooks his machine to the patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," he sees a world made of what?

5. 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"?

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