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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 was "The Other Gods" first published?
(a) The Fantasy Fan.
(b) The United Amateur.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The Fantasy Reader.

2. What does the narrator do for employment, in "Hypnos"?
(a) He is an astronaut.
(b) He is a scientist.
(c) He is a sculptor.
(d) He is a journalist.

3. Who "would meditate upon the visions that filled his mind, and there devise the forms of beauty which later became immortal in breathing marble," in "The Tree"?
(a) Musides.
(b) Kalos.
(c) The king.
(d) The prince.

4. When was "The Other Gods" first published?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1933.

5. In what do the gods travel, in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Silver sleighs.
(b) Golden chariots.
(c) Cloud ships.
(d) Golden air ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. The captain's log, of "The Temple," was found off the coast of what?

2. The narrator in, "Hypnos," writes of the stranger, "this man was a faun's statue out of antique ____..."

3. Whom does West reanimate who kills and eats a child, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

4. In what war do the narrator and West volunteer, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

5. How was Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee killed, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when the narrator goes to visit Tillinghast in "From Beyond"?

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

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

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

8. How are Musides and Kalos similar? How are they different?

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

10. Who is the central character in "The Temple"? What is the narrative style of the work?

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