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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 summoned the two sculptors in "The Tree" to build statues for him?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) The king.
(c) The Tyrant of Syracuse.
(d) Zeus.

2. Where was the short story "Hypnos"first published?
(a) The National Amateur.
(b) The Fantasy Reader.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The United Amateur.

3. In what do the gods travel, in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Golden chariots.
(b) Silver sleighs.
(c) Cloud ships.
(d) Golden air ships.

4. What does Kurane see coming towards him on the bridge, in the ending of "Celephais"?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Phantoms.
(c) Knights of Celephais.
(d) Knights of Xura.

5. What happens to Slater in the end of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) He dies.
(b) He goes home.
(c) He gets married.
(d) He wakes up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator long to be, but was found unworthy, in "Polaris"?

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

3. Who, in Greek religion and mythology, is the god of shepherds, flocks, mountain wilds, hunting, and rustic music, as well as being a companion of the nymphs?

4. Where does the narrator meet the stranger, in "Hypnos"?

5. Who "revelled by night amidst the urban gaieties of Tegea," in "The Tree"?

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