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

2. What is the name of the narrator in "The White Ship"?
(a) Kurane.
(b) Iranor.
(c) Basil Elton.
(d) Crawford Tillinghast.

3. What does Altberg find coming from the temple, in "The Temple"?
(a) Music.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Evil.
(d) Light.

4. What social worker wrote The Yellow Wall Paper?
(a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Robert Browning.

5. Where does the narrator decide to travel after many eons, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Xura.
(b) Sona-Nyl.
(c) Cathuria.
(d) Thalarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote what Lovecraft refers to as "the hideous poem," Childe Roland?

2. In the years that Iranon and the boy travel, what is unusual about Iranon's age?

3. Where do the narrator and his companion not enter because only demons and madmen can live in that city, in "The White Ship"?

4. What happens when the servants turn on the lights, in "From Beyond"?

5. Lovecraft writes, in "Supernatural Horror in Literature," that the oldest and strongest emotion in mankind is what?

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