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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. Whose artwork surmounts a pillar in Athens near the Parthenon, in "The Tree"?
(a) Musides'.
(b) Pliny's.
(c) Michaelangelo's.
(d) Kalos'.

2. Who wrote the opening quote, in the short story "Hypnos"?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Charles Baudelaire.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Mary Shelley.

3. Karl Heinrich von Altberg-Ehrenstein is fighting in what war, in "The Temple"?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

4. The narrator describes the stranger as having a brow as "white as the marble of" whom, in "Hypnos"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Athena.
(c) Pentelicus.
(d) Helles.

5. Where did Herbert West attend college?
(a) Celephais University.
(b) Mistkatonic University.
(c) Sarnath University.
(d) Alironks University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the servants afraid to do at Tillinghast's house, in "From Beyond"?

2. What does Herbert West use to reanimate dead bodies?

3. What British freighter is destroyed, in "The Temple"?

4. What does Iranon do as he travels in "The Quest of Iranon"?

5. What does Tillinghast tell the narrator they are viewing with the machine on, in "From Beyond"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Altberg's crew after the ivory figurine is brought aboard the craft?

2. Describe the journey of Iranon to Oonai in "The Quest of Iranon." How long does it take?

3. What does Herbert West do in Boston? What are the effects of his experiments there?

4. What happens to the dean in "Herbert West-Reanimator"? Where is he placed after capture?

5. Where does "The Other Gods" take place? Where have this setting and some characters been seen previously?

6. What theory does Herbert West develop in college? What does this lead to?

7. What happens in the ending of "Hypnos"? What does the narrator discover?

8. Who does Iranon befriend in Teloth, in "The Quest of Iranon"?

9. Who is Crawford Tillinghast? What is his obsession?

10. Describe the beginning of "Hypnos." Where is the narrator when he meets a stranger?

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