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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Altberg allow the British soldiers to do while his cameras are recording, in "The Temple"?
(a) Escape.
(b) Keep their weapons.
(c) Call for help.
(d) Call home.

2. Where is the olive grove described in "The Tree"?
(a) Southern France.
(b) Rome.
(c) Arcadia.
(d) Egypt.

3. What mountain is described in the opening of "The Tree"?
(a) Mount Herod.
(b) Mount McKinley.
(c) Mount Vesuvius.
(d) Mount Maenalus.

4. What British freighter is destroyed, in "The Temple"?
(a) The Spirit of St. Louis.
(b) The White Knight.
(c) The Lady Mercy.
(d) The Victory.

5. What are the servants afraid to do at Tillinghast's house, in "From Beyond"?
(a) Turn on the lights.
(b) Open the door.
(c) Open the attic.
(d) Turn off the lights.

6. Who is the friend of the narrator in "From Beyond"?
(a) Menes.
(b) Joe Slater.
(c) Crawford Tillinghast.
(d) Basil Elton.

7. Who tells the stranger about Aira, in the end of "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) A warrior.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A thief.
(d) A king.

8. Who dies in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) The queen.
(b) Iranon.
(c) Romnod.
(d) The king.

9. Who, in Greek religion and mythology, is the god of shepherds, flocks, mountain wilds, hunting, and rustic music, as well as being a companion of the nymphs?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Dionysis.
(c) Pan.
(d) Oden.

10. In what branch of the military is Altberg, in "The Temple"?
(a) Army.
(b) Marines.
(c) Navy.
(d) Air Force.

11. The boy suggests to Iranon to travel to what city after Teloth, in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) Oonai.
(b) Algol.
(c) Ulthar.
(d) Celephais.

12. Ulthar lies beyond what river, in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Skai.
(b) Ngranek.
(c) Kadath.
(d) Lerion.

13. When was "Hypnos" first published?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1911.

14. Who is the dean of the medical school, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) Slater.
(b) Morris.
(c) Halsey.
(d) Duncan.

15. Where was the short story "Hypnos"first published?
(a) The National Amateur.
(b) The Fantasy Reader.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The United Amateur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does West reanimate who kills and eats a child, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

2. What does the narrator see moving about once the machine is on, in "From Beyond"?

3. Lovecraft writes in "The Other Gods," "But now they have betaken themselves to unknown ____ in the cold waste where no man treads."

4. The stranger's voice, in "Hypnos," is described as "the music of deep viols and of crystalline" what?

5. What is knocked over and burns Herbert West's laboratory?

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