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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British freighter is destroyed, in "The Temple"?

2. Whose sculpture stands in a marble shrine in Corinth, in "The Tree"?

3. Who is the friend of the narrator in "From Beyond"?

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

5. The narrator of "From Beyond" states, in the beginning of the narrative, he hasn't seen his friend for how long?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Tillinghast define the "blobs" once the machine is on, in "From Beyond"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting and protagonist of "The Temple." How does the motif of war support the story's themes? How is Karl Heinrich von Altberg-Ehrenstein described?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the setting of "The Cats of Ulthar" and "The Other Gods." How is the city of Ulthar described in each of these stories?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the people of Sarnath and the creatures of Ib in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath." How does the narrator compare these groups in the story?

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