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

2. Where have men "heard the sighs of the gods in the plaintive dawn-winds," in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Lerion.
(b) Kadath.
(c) Ngranek.
(d) Thurai.

3. What mountain is described in the opening of "The Tree"?
(a) Mount Maenalus.
(b) Mount Herod.
(c) Mount Vesuvius.
(d) Mount McKinley.

4. What is the name of the High priest, in "The Other Gods"?
(a) Barzai.
(b) Menes.
(c) Kadath.
(d) Atal.

5. When was "Hypnos" first published?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who died before his friend, in "The Tree"?

2. Who had gone missing before the narrator goes to visit his friend, in "From Beyond"?

3. What does the narrator do for employment, in "Hypnos"?

4. Where is Tillinghast's laboratory, in "From Beyond"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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