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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city stood 10,000 years ago but stands no more, in the story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Imbor.
(b) Anar.
(c) Sarnath.
(d) Ib.

2. Where was "The White Ship" first published?
(a) The United Amateur.
(b) The Fantasy Reader.
(c) The Written Word.
(d) Reader's Digest.

3. Where did the bravest warriors go to meet their enemies for battle in Olathoe, in the story "Polaris"?
(a) The fortress.
(b) The shore.
(c) The river mouth.
(d) The mountain pass.

4. What is the narrator to do if the Inutos gain the upper hand in the battle, in "Polaris"?
(a) Join the battle.
(b) Light a signal fire.
(c) Burn the village.
(d) Save the women and children.

5. 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) Ib.
(b) Mnar.
(c) Agar.
(d) Sarnath.

6. What is the name of the psychiatric patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Jerry Slater.
(b) Andy Slater.
(c) Joe Slater.
(d) Joe Martin.

7. What did the sailor awake to find himself surrounded by in "Dagon"?
(a) White light.
(b) Lava.
(c) Yellow light.
(d) Dark ooze.

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

9. 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.

10. What great stone city had once stood by the lake, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Ib.
(b) Sarnath.
(c) Imbor.
(d) Anar.

11. In what year is "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" set?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1901.

12. The creature in "Dagon" is described as half-man, half-what?
(a) Bird.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Cat.
(d) Fish.

13. Who is on the white ship seen by the narrator, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A bearded man.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A sea-god.

14. How did the sailor escape the island in "Dagon"?
(a) He forgot.
(b) He rode the creature.
(c) An ambulance arrived.
(d) A plane took him.

15. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?
(a) Alhtoa.
(b) Kadiphonek.
(c) Olathoe.
(d) Lomar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy traveler, in "The Cats of Ulthar," do after being told of the cotter?

2. What is the narrator's job in the dream-land, in "Polaris"?

3. In Ulthar, there is a law that no man can do what?

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

5. What is the narrator's occupation in "The White Ship"?

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