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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cats of Ulthar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?
(a) Thalarian.
(b) Sona-Nyl.
(c) Cathuria.
(d) Xura.

2. In what year is "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" set?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1940.

3. 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) Ib.
(c) Mnar.
(d) Sarnath.

4. 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) Lomar.
(d) Olathoe.

5. What does a boy messenger report seeing, surrounding the cotter's house, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Cats.
(b) Bears.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Lions.

Short Answer Questions

1. After how many days does the boy traveler's kitten go missing, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

2. What great stone city had once stood by the lake, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

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

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

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

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