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

2. What breaks out in the town, giving West a large number of cadavers, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) Plague.
(b) Flu.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Leprocy.

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

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

5. The narrator of "From Beyond" states, in the beginning of the narrative, he hasn't seen his friend for how long?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 and 1/2 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 1 month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the stranger's eyes described, in "Hypnos"?

2. The old man of Ulthar was well-studied in the seven cryptical books of earth and what?

3. Where does West go on to open a private practice, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

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

5. How old is the stranger the narrator meets, in "Hypnos"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to make the characters in "Hypnos" desire to stay awake?

2. What is the objective of Barzai, in "The Other Gods"?

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

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

5. How does "From Beyond" end? How does the narrator escape?

6. What interest bonds the two characters in "Hypnos"? How do they pursue this interest?

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

8. What does Altberg do with the British soldiers, in "The Temple"? What happens after they resurface?

9. How does Tillinghast define the "blobs" once the machine is on, in "From Beyond"?

10. Where is Iranon in the beginning of "The Quest of Iranon"? How is it described?

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