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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 does the sailor in "Dagon" find on the monolith on the island?
(a) A giant whale.
(b) Hieroglyphics.
(c) Blood.
(d) Grey ooze.

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"?
(a) Ib.
(b) Sarnath.
(c) Mnar.
(d) Agar.

3. What is the name of the young boy among the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Attar.
(b) Bokrug.
(c) Kurane.
(d) Menes.

4. What psychologist does the narrator cite in the opening of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) James Hotmore.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Alexander Williams.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

5. Where was "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" first published?
(a) The Amateur.
(b) Pine Cones.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) Fantasy Reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's position in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

2. Where is the demon hiding which the being goes to destroy, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

3. Who attacked the sailor's ship in "Dagon"?

4. What had risen from the depths, during the night in "Dagon"?

5. The sailor in "Dagon"concluded it would be safest to explore the island when?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What strangers arrive in Ulthar? How are they described in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

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

6. What happens to the narrator, in the ending of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"? Where does the light being go?

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

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

9. Describe the dream land of the narrator in "Polaris." What is taking place in the dream-world?

10. What happens to Sarnath after the slaying of the creatures of Ib? For how many years does the city prosper?

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