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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 did the sailor awake to find himself surrounded by in "Dagon"?
(a) Lava.
(b) Yellow light.
(c) White light.
(d) Dark ooze.

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

3. The creature in "Dagon" is described as half-man, half-what?
(a) Cat.
(b) Fish.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Bird.

4. Once the narrator hooks his machine to the patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," he sees a world made of what?
(a) Light.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Gold.

5. In what land is there a vast, still lake that is fed by no stream, but out of which no stream flows, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Agar.
(b) Sarnath.
(c) Ib.
(d) Mnar.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people of Sarnath do what to the beings of Ib?

2. Where was it rumored the people of Ib had descended from where, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

3. What do the people of Sarnath steal from Ib?

4. 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"?

5. The narrator invents a machine that would let him see what, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

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