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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. What do the townspeople find in the cotter's house, at the end of "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Skeletons.
(b) Angels.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Cats.

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

3. What land is referred to as a land past the pillars that no man has ever seen, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Cathuria.
(b) Sona-Nyl.
(c) Thalarian.
(d) Xura.

4. What is knocked over and burns Herbert West's laboratory?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A bunson burner.
(c) A beaker.
(d) A lantern.

5. Who engaged in heavy drinking and reveling in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) Romnod.
(b) Celephais.
(c) The prince.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lovecraft write "appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races, and is crystallized in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings"?

2. Once the submarine surfaces again, what do the crew find on the hub, in "The Temple"?

3. 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"?

4. How old is the stranger the narrator meets, in "Hypnos"?

5. Ulthar lies beyond what river, in "The Other Gods"?

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