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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the high priest of Sarnath writing when he dies?
(a) "Prosperity."
(b) "Love."
(c) "Fate."
(d) "Doom."

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

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

4. Where was it rumored the people of Ib had descended from where, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Mars.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Venus.
(d) The moon.

5. Where was "The Cats of Ulthar" first published?
(a) The Fantasy Reader.
(b) The United Amateur.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The Tryout.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the psychiatric patient from, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

2. What do the townspeople find in the cotter's house, at the end of "The Cats of Ulthar"?

3. Where do the narrator and his companion not enter because only demons and madmen can live in that city, in "The White Ship"?

4. What city does the narrator first dream he is in, in "Polaris"?

5. Celephais is located by what sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the settlers of Sarnath discover, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"? Who are their neighbors?

2. What is the narrator's job in the climax of "Polaris"? Where does he go?

3. Describe the narrator of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep." How does he introduce the story?

4. Describe the beginning of "Polaris." Where is the narrator?

5. What law rules the land in Ulthar? What does the narrator describe as happening before the law went into place?

6. Where is the monolith in "Dagon"? What does the sailor find there?

7. When does Joe Slater come to the hospital in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"? How is Slater described?

8. How long is the hero's journey to Cathuria in "The White Ship"? What happens in the end of the story?

9. What action takes place in the beginning of "Dagon"? What is the setting?

10. Where does the sailor go after escaping the war ship in "Dagon"? Where does he find himself?

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