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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 is described as near the olive grove in "The Tree"?
(a) A castle.
(b) A well.
(c) A temple.
(d) A tomb.

2. What does the narrator see moving about once the machine is on, in "From Beyond"?
(a) Fish.
(b) Lions.
(c) Angels.
(d) Blobs.

3. What were both sculptors in "The Tree" summoned to create a sculpture of?
(a) Tyche.
(b) Homer.
(c) Pan.
(d) Zeus.

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

5. Who "revelled by night amidst the urban gaieties of Tegea," in "The Tree"?
(a) Kalos.
(b) The warriors.
(c) The king.
(d) Musides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the stranger about Aira, in the end of "The Quest of Iranon"?

2. Where is the olive grove described in "The Tree"?

3. It is suggested that the city of Oonai might in fact be what, in "The Quest of Iranon"?

4. Who does Herbert West pay for bodies early in his experiments?

5. The stranger's voice, in "Hypnos," is described as "the music of deep viols and of crystalline" what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the olive tree do in the ending of "The Tree"?

8. Describe Herbert West in "Herbert West-Reanimator." Where does he meet the narrator?

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

10. Where does Iranon go after leaving Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"? How does the story end?

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