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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 rainbow.
(b) A bird.
(c) A star.
(d) A cloud.

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

3. What had risen from the depths, during the night in "Dagon"?
(a) A snake.
(b) A mountain.
(c) An evil spirit.
(d) A submarine.

4. What does the narrator long to be, but was found unworthy, in "Polaris"?
(a) A shepherd.
(b) A warror.
(c) A king.
(d) A prince.

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

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

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

8. Where was "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" first published?
(a) Pine Cones.
(b) Fantasy Reader.
(c) The Amateur.
(d) Reader's Digest.

9. Where was the psychiatric patient from, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Upstate Massachusetts.
(b) Upstate New York.
(c) Southern Illinois.
(d) Western Kentucky.

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

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

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

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

14. Who are the enemies of the people of Olathoe, in "Polaris"?
(a) Alhtohans.
(b) Inutos.
(c) Antigans.
(d) Intutus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator first sail, in "The White Ship"?

2. When was the story "Polaris" written?

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

4. The creature in "Dagon" is described as half-man, half-what?

5. What is the name of the narrator in "The White Ship"?

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