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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who attacked the sailor's ship in "Dagon"?
(a) French.
(b) Americans.
(c) Germans.
(d) Italians.

2. How did the sailor escape the island in "Dagon"?
(a) An ambulance arrived.
(b) He forgot.
(c) He rode the creature.
(d) A plane took him.

3. The narrator invents a machine that would let him see what, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Beyond death.
(d) Through time.

4. Once the narrator hooks his machine to the patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," he sees a world made of what?
(a) Gold.
(b) Light.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Shadow.

5. The narrator in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" believes the human mind is sometimes able to visit where in sleep?
(a) Other planets.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) Alternate realities.

6. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?
(a) Kadiphonek.
(b) Lomar.
(c) Alhtoa.
(d) Olathoe.

7. In Celephais, there is no what?
(a) Time.
(b) Language.
(c) Peace.
(d) Beauty.

8. Celephais is located beyond what hills?
(a) Tanarian hills.
(b) Ooth Hills.
(c) Athib Hills.
(d) Cerenerian Hills.

9. The god the beings of Ib worship is described as a great what?
(a) Water lizard.
(b) Cat-being.
(c) Lion.
(d) Whale-man.

10. What lures the narrator to sleep, in "Polaris"?
(a) A fairy.
(b) The moon.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The North Star.

11. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?
(a) Thalarian.
(b) Cathuria.
(c) Xura.
(d) Sona-Nyl.

12. Where did the bravest warriors go to meet their enemies for battle in Olathoe, in the story "Polaris"?
(a) The fortress.
(b) The mountain pass.
(c) The river mouth.
(d) The shore.

13. How many days did the sailor shelter himself on his stranded boat before venturing out, in "Dagon"?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

14. What had risen from the depths, during the night in "Dagon"?
(a) A snake.
(b) A submarine.
(c) A mountain.
(d) An evil spirit.

15. In what land is there a vast, still lake that is fed by no stream, but out of which no stream flows, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Agar.
(b) Mnar.
(c) Ib.
(d) Sarnath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's occupation in "The White Ship"?

2. When does the author write in "Polaris," "the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon"?

3. What is the name of the psychiatric patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?

4. What is the name of the sailor Kurane hires, in "Celephais"?

5. The people of Sarnath do what to the beings of Ib?

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