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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy traveler, in "The Cats of Ulthar," do after being told of the cotter?
(a) Danced.
(b) Killed the cotter.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Wept.

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

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

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

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

6. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?
(a) Xura.
(b) Thalarian.
(c) Sona-Nyl.
(d) Cathuria.

7. What do the people of Sarnath steal from Ib?
(a) Their idol.
(b) Their town hall.
(c) Their fountain.
(d) Their women.

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

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

10. On what anniversary do the people of Sarnath complain of seeing the long dead mysterious creatures around town?
(a) 200th.
(b) 250th.
(c) 1,000th.
(d) 100th.

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

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

13. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?
(a) Alhtoa.
(b) Lomar.
(c) Kadiphonek.
(d) Olathoe.

14. What does a boy messenger report seeing, surrounding the cotter's house, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Lions.
(d) Bears.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The sailor in "Dagon"concluded it would be safest to explore the island when?

2. What is the narrator's position in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

3. How did the sailor escape in "Dagon"?

4. What lures the narrator to sleep, in "Polaris"?

5. Who are the enemies of the people of Olathoe, in "Polaris"?

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