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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and his companion follow in their ship, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A bird.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) A cloud.
(d) A star.

2. What city does the narrator first dream he is in, in "Polaris"?
(a) Olathoe.
(b) Kadiphonek.
(c) Lomar.
(d) Alhtoa.

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

4. In what land is there a vast, still lake that is fed by no stream, but out of which no stream flows, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Sarnath.
(b) Ib.
(c) Mnar.
(d) Agar.

5. What did the sailor in "Dagon" eventually become addicted to?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Heroin.

6. What is the name of the god the beings of Ib worship?
(a) Bokrug.
(b) Orlan.
(c) Ibmore.
(d) Aslan.

7. The patient in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" has night rants that are described as extremely what?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Violent.
(c) Endangering.
(d) Literate.

8. Where was "The Cats of Ulthar" first published?
(a) The United Amateur.
(b) The Fantasy Reader.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The Tryout.

9. What is the narrator's job in the dream-land, in "Polaris"?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Cook.
(c) Carriage driver.
(d) Lookout.

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

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

12. When does the author write in "Polaris," "the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon"?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

13. What were on the sides of the vehicles of the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Flying elves.
(b) Fish-men.
(c) Cat-humans.
(d) Dragons.

14. Celephais is located by what sea?
(a) Tanarian Sea.
(b) Ooth Sea.
(c) Longnach Sea.
(d) Cerenerian Sea.

15. The narrator in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" believes the human mind is sometimes able to visit where in sleep?
(a) Other planets.
(b) Hell.
(c) Alternate realities.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city stood 10,000 years ago but stands no more, in the story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

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

3. What was the sailor taken aboard as prisoner in "Dagon"?

4. Where does Kurane live in the beginning of "Celephais"?

5. Where was "The White Ship" first published?

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