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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The stranger's voice, in "Hypnos," is described as "the music of deep viols and of crystalline" what?
(a) Notes.
(b) Raindrops.
(c) Spheres.
(d) Teardrops.

2. Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hypnos?
(a) Somnus.
(b) Argos.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Zeus.

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

4. In the years that Iranon and the boy travel, what is unusual about Iranon's age?
(a) He aged quickly.
(b) He didn't age.
(c) He aged slowly.
(d) He aged in reverse.

5. Where do the gods of earth dwell in "The Other Gods"?
(a) In the earth's deepest valleys.
(b) Beyond the River Styx.
(c) Atop the tallest of earth's peaks.
(d) Beyond Mount Olympus.

6. What were both sculptors in "The Tree" summoned to create a sculpture of?
(a) Tyche.
(b) Homer.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Pan.

7. The people of Teloth, in "The Quest of Iranon," are described as very what?
(a) Jovial.
(b) Ephemeral.
(c) Somber.
(d) Spirited.

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

9. Who engaged in heavy drinking and reveling in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) The king.
(b) The prince.
(c) Romnod.
(d) Celephais.

10. Whom does West reanimate who kills and eats a child, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) A nurse.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A boxer.
(d) A professor.

11. What does Altberg find coming from the temple, in "The Temple"?
(a) Light.
(b) Music.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Evil.

12. Who died before his friend, in "The Tree"?
(a) Musides.
(b) The king.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Kalos.

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

14. 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) Dionysis.
(b) Oden.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Pan.

15. What begins to follow the submarine, in "The Temple"?
(a) Whales.
(b) Dolphins.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Octupi.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in, "Hypnos," writes of the stranger, "this man was a faun's statue out of antique ____..."

2. Where does the narrator meet the stranger, in "Hypnos"?

3. Ulthar lies beyond what river, in "The Other Gods"?

4. Whose sculpture stands in a marble shrine in Corinth, in "The Tree"?

5. The captain's log, of "The Temple," was found off the coast of what?

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