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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. What is the narrator's job in the dream-land, in "Polaris"?
(a) Lookout.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Carriage driver.
(d) Cook.

2. What happens to the lake in the ending of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) It rises.
(b) It disappears.
(c) It dries completely.
(d) It sinks.

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

4. What did the sailor in "Dagon" eventually become addicted to?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Alcohol.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" first published?

2. How did the sailor escape in "Dagon"?

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

4. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?

5. The narrator in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" believes the human mind is sometimes able to visit where in sleep?

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