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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Winter.

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

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

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

10. Where is the demon hiding which the being goes to destroy, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Polaris.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Algol.

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

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

13. 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.

14. How did the sailor escape the island in "Dagon"?
(a) A plane took him.
(b) He rode the creature.
(c) He forgot.
(d) An ambulance arrived.

15. In what year is "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" set?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was it rumored the people of Ib had descended from where, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

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"?

3. Where was "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" first published?

4. What is Polaris another name for?

5. On what anniversary do the people of Sarnath complain of seeing the long dead mysterious creatures around town?

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