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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 can Tillinghast's machine activate, in "From Beyond"?

2. What does Tillinghast tell the narrator they are viewing with the machine on, in "From Beyond"?

3. What does the narrator do to the machine, in "From Beyond"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens in the ending of "Hypnos"? What does the narrator discover?

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

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

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

9. What happens to Altberg's crew after the ivory figurine is brought aboard the craft?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the recurring theme of "ancient deities" in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath." How does the theme in this story relate to the theme in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of "forbidden knowledge" and the motif of nature in "Dagon." How does Lovecraft support the theme with imagery?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the character of Basil Elton from "The White Ship" to Kurane in "Celephais." How are these protagonists similar? How are they different?

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