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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. Whose sculpture stands in a marble shrine in Corinth, in "The Tree"?
(a) Musides'.
(b) Kalos'.
(c) Michaelangelo's.
(d) Homer's.

2. Who died before his friend, in "The Tree"?
(a) Kalos.
(b) Musides.
(c) The king.
(d) Menelaus.

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

4. Where does the narrator meet the stranger, in "Hypnos"?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A morgue.
(c) A train station.
(d) A hospital.

5. Once the submarine surfaces again, what do the crew find on the hub, in "The Temple"?
(a) A silver ring.
(b) A whale carcass.
(c) A British soldier.
(d) A mermaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young apprentice priest's name, in "The Other Gods"?

2. Where have men "heard the sighs of the gods in the plaintive dawn-winds," in "The Other Gods"?

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

4. Who is the dean of the medical school, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the journey of Iranon to Oonai in "The Quest of Iranon." How long does it take?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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