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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. What breaks out in the town, giving West a large number of cadavers, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) Leprocy.
(b) Flu.
(c) Plague.
(d) Typhoid.

2. What does the narrator do for employment, in "Hypnos"?
(a) He is a sculptor.
(b) He is a scientist.
(c) He is an astronaut.
(d) He is a journalist.

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

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

5. What is the name of the boy Iranon befriends in Teloth?
(a) Bokrug.
(b) Menes.
(c) Romnod.
(d) Kurane.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee killed, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

2. How many people did the dean of the medical school kill and devour, after being reanimated, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?

3. What are the servants afraid to do at Tillinghast's house, in "From Beyond"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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