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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Supernatural Horror in Literature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who "would meditate upon the visions that filled his mind, and there devise the forms of beauty which later became immortal in breathing marble," in "The Tree"?
(a) The prince.
(b) Musides.
(c) Kalos.
(d) The king.

2. What can Tillinghast's machine activate, in "From Beyond"?
(a) The pituitary gland.
(b) The endocrine gland.
(c) The pineal gland.
(d) The thyroid gland.

3. Who, according to Lovecraft, utilized his knowledge of psychology and philosophy to break free from the Gothic cliché to create a new and more powerful horror story?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

5. Celephais is located beyond what hills?
(a) Tanarian hills.
(b) Cerenerian Hills.
(c) Athib Hills.
(d) Ooth Hills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breaks out in the town, giving West a large number of cadavers, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

2. What land is referred to as a land past the pillars that no man has ever seen, in "The White Ship"?

3. What killed Musides, in the end of "The Tree"?

4. The narrator in, "Hypnos," writes of the stranger, "this man was a faun's statue out of antique ____..."

5. What is described as near the olive grove in "The Tree"?

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