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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. Who tells the stranger about Aira, in the end of "The Quest of Iranon"?
(a) A warrior.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A thief.
(d) A king.

2. The captain's log, of "The Temple," was found off the coast of what?
(a) Australia.
(b) Yucatan.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Japan.

3. Where does West go on to open a private practice, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) Boston.
(b) New Hampsire.
(c) New York.
(d) New Mexico.

4. Whom does West reanimate who kills and eats a child, in "Herbert West-Reanimator"?
(a) A professor.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A boxer.
(d) A nurse.

5. Who wrote the opening quote, in the short story "Hypnos"?
(a) Charles Baudelaire.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Mary Shelley.

Short Answer Questions

1. The stranger's voice, in "Hypnos," is described as "the music of deep viols and of crystalline" what?

2. What is knocked over and burns Herbert West's laboratory?

3. How old is the stranger the narrator meets, in "Hypnos"?

4. What begins to follow the submarine, in "The Temple"?

5. Who dies in Oonai, in "The Quest of Iranon"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Crawford Tillinghast? What is his obsession?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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