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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 name of the psychiatric patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Joe Slater.
(b) Andy Slater.
(c) Joe Martin.
(d) Jerry Slater.

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

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

4. What is the name of the sailor Kurane hires, in "Celephais"?
(a) Basil.
(b) Menes.
(c) Athib.
(d) Borkrug.

5. Who is on the white ship seen by the narrator, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A sea-god.
(d) A bearded man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist does the narrator cite in the opening of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?

2. 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"?

3. What were the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar," traveling in?

4. What does the boy traveler, in "The Cats of Ulthar," do after being told of the cotter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the style of "Polaris." What literary techniques does Lovecraft implement in this story?

2. What does the narrator write about Slater's behavior at the hospital, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"? What is notable about his dreams?

3. What does Kurane do once he has reappeared in London, in "Celephais"?

4. What do the townspeople discover in the ending of "The Cats of Ulthar"?

5. Who is the protagonist of "The White Ship"? Where is he when the story begins?

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

7. How is the land of Zar described in "The White Ship"? How is Thalarian described?

8. Describe the hero's journeys to Xura and Sona-Nyl in "The White Ship." How long does he stay?

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

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

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