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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Kurane has believe has been sucked out of the life of modern men, in "Celephais"?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Myth.
(c) Love.
(d) Justice.

6. When does the author write in "Polaris," "the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon"?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

7. The sailor in "Dagon"concluded it would be safest to explore the island when?
(a) In the day.
(b) In the morning.
(c) At night.
(d) In the evening.

8. What were the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar," traveling in?
(a) A van.
(b) Carriages.
(c) A train.
(d) A bus.

9. Once the narrator hooks his machine to the patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," he sees a world made of what?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Gold.
(d) Light.

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

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

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

13. What color kitten does the boy traveler have, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Gray.
(b) Orange.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

14. The narrator invents a machine that would let him see what, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Through time.
(d) Beyond death.

15. What is described as the pink marble city, in "Celephais"?
(a) Xura.
(b) Menes.
(c) Athib.
(d) Serannian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What city stood 10,000 years ago but stands no more, in the story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

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

4. The narrator in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" believes the human mind is sometimes able to visit where in sleep?

5. What refers to a single structure that arises from the ground?

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