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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lures the narrator to sleep, in "Polaris"?
(a) The North Star.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A fairy.
(d) The moon.

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

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

4. What does Kurane see coming towards him on the bridge, in the ending of "Celephais"?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Knights of Celephais.
(c) Phantoms.
(d) Knights of Xura.

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

6. What land is referred to as a land past the pillars that no man has ever seen, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Sona-Nyl.
(b) Thalarian.
(c) Cathuria.
(d) Xura.

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

8. Where does the narrator decide to travel after many eons, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Thalarian.
(b) Xura.
(c) Cathuria.
(d) Sona-Nyl.

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

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

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

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

13. How did the sailor escape in "Dagon"?
(a) His crew saved him.
(b) He levitated.
(c) He swam.
(d) Lifeboat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Where was the psychiatric patient from, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

3. After how many days does the boy traveler's kitten go missing, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

4. What do the narrator and his companion follow in their ship, in "The White Ship"?

5. What does Kurane has believe has been sucked out of the life of modern men, in "Celephais"?

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