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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the high priest of Sarnath writing when he dies?
(a) "Doom."
(b) "Prosperity."
(c) "Fate."
(d) "Love."

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

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

7. What is the name of the young boy among the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Menes.
(b) Attar.
(c) Bokrug.
(d) Kurane.

8. What is the name of the narrator in "The White Ship"?
(a) Kurane.
(b) Crawford Tillinghast.
(c) Basil Elton.
(d) Iranor.

9. What did the old cotter like to do, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Kill cats.
(b) Eat steak.
(c) Fish.
(d) Shoot dogs.

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

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

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

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

14. The narrator, in "Celephais," describes Kurane as not what?
(a) Modern.
(b) Creative.
(c) Adventurous.
(d) Imaginative.

15. What is Kurane in his family lineage, in "Celephais"?
(a) Eldest.
(b) Last.
(c) Middle child.
(d) Uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were on the sides of the vehicles of the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

2. What is the name of the psychiatric patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

3. Where do the narrator and his companion not enter because only demons and madmen can live in that city, in "The White Ship"?

4. What is described as the pink marble city, in "Celephais"?

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

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