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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) Ib.
(c) Anar.
(d) Sarnath.

2. In "Celephais," Kurane is described as a what?
(a) Reveller.
(b) Dancer.
(c) Dreamer.
(d) Singer.

3. What is referred to as the land of pleasures unattained, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Cathuria.
(b) Xura.
(c) Thalarian.
(d) Sona-Nyl.

4. The people of Sarnath do what to the beings of Ib?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Trade with them.
(c) Exile them.
(d) Worship them.

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

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

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

8. What is the narrator's occupation in "The White Ship"?
(a) Lighthouse keeper.
(b) Medical internist.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Lifeguard.

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

10. The god the beings of Ib worship is described as a great what?
(a) Cat-being.
(b) Water lizard.
(c) Lion.
(d) Whale-man.

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

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

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

14. Celephais is located in the valley of what?
(a) Morador.
(b) Ooth-Nargai.
(c) Tanarian.
(d) Athib.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the old cotter like to do, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

2. The narrator invents a machine that would let him see what, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

3. What city does the narrator first dream he is in, in "Polaris"?

4. The patient in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" has night rants that are described as extremely what?

5. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?

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