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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 did Joe Slater awaken from a nightmare to do, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Kill his children.
(b) Kill a man.
(c) Kill his wife.
(d) Kill himself.

2. Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hypnos?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Somnus.
(d) Argos.

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"?
(a) The prince.
(b) Kalos.
(c) The king.
(d) Musides.

4. What killed Musides, in the end of "The Tree"?
(a) A giant rock.
(b) An evil spirit.
(c) The olive tree.
(d) A sea-creature.

5. What is the narrator's position in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Medical internist.
(b) Professor.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Janitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kurane in his family lineage, in "Celephais"?

2. The creature in "Dagon" is described as half-man, half-what?

3. 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"?

4. What psychologist does the narrator cite in the opening of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

5. What is Polaris another name for?

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