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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. Where do the gods of earth dwell in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Beyond the River Styx.
(b) Atop the tallest of earth's peaks.
(c) In the earth's deepest valleys.
(d) Beyond Mount Olympus.

2. In what branch of the military is Altberg, in "The Temple"?
(a) Army.
(b) Marines.
(c) Navy.
(d) Air Force.

3. How are the stranger's eyes described, in "Hypnos"?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

4. What can Tillinghast's machine activate, in "From Beyond"?
(a) The pituitary gland.
(b) The pineal gland.
(c) The endocrine gland.
(d) The thyroid gland.

5. Where was the short story "Hypnos"first published?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The United Amateur.
(c) The National Amateur.
(d) The Fantasy Reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Tillinghast since the narrator had last seen him, in "From Beyond"?

2. How is the stranger dressed whom the narrator encounters, in "Hypnos"?

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

4. In "Herbert West-Reanimator," West develops a theory that the human body is entirely what?

5. The people of Teloth, in "The Quest of Iranon," are described as very what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Altberg's vessel become trapped, in "The Temple"?

2. What happens at the top of the mountain in "The Other Gods"? What do they do?

3. Describe the style and themes in "The Other Gods." Where is the horror in the story?

4. Who are the central characters in "The Tree"? What do they do?

5. What becomes of Kalos, in the story "The Tree"?

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

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

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

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

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

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