The H.P. Lovecraft Quiz: 13 questions by Sarah Perry

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Which of the following did Lovecraft not despise?

Seafood
New York
Cats
Non Anglo-Saxons

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Which early Lovecraft story contains this line:
"his theory, why certain corpses never decay but rest firm and fat in their tombs for a thousand years"

The Tomb
Beyond The Wall of Sleep
The Terrible Old Man
The Statement of Randolph Carter

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What year was H.P. Lovecraft born?

1885
1890
1894
1899

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Which of the following events does NOT happen to the German narrator in the submarine tale of terror 'The Temple'?

shoots 6 men
comical undersea entanglements with dolphins
hears hideous fish-men playing flutes by the portholes of the submarine
gets trapped alone in the unknown abysses of the ocean

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In which story does Abdul Alhazred, the mad Arab, first appear?

The Nameless City
Polaris
Nyarlathotep
The Hound

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Why does Herbert West, in 'Herbert West - Reanimator' claim that his experiments continually fail?

The bodies were 'embalmed'
The bodies were 'beheaded'
The bodies were 'not fresh enough'
The bodies had seen too many 'inaccessible spheres of being'

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Which of the following is not a Lovecraft hero/victim?

Cecil Waite Winthrop
Crawford Tillinghast
Jervas Dudley
Denys Barry

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Lovecraft claimed to have spent up to 6 hours of the day writing letters. Which of the following writers did Lovecraft not correspond with?

Clark Ashton Smith
Robert E. Howard
Robert Bloch
Ambrose Bierce

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Which very short story contains the lines "I am the last...I will tell the audient void."

Nyarlathotep
The Crawling Chaos
The Doom That Came To Sarnath
At The Mountains of Madness

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Which of these stories was not one of Lovecraft's claimed favorites?

The Nameless City
The Music of Erich Zann
The Cats of Ulthar
The Hound

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Which Lovecraft story is set in a house on a dreamlike street which is "narrow and steep", like "a cliff", where the houses were "crazily leaning backward, forward and sidewise"?

The Colour out of Space
The Music of Erich Zann
Pickman's Model
The Nameless City

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Lovecraft got married in 1924 and moved in Brooklyn. What was his wife's name?

Sonia Greene
Winifred Jackson
Sarah Susan Phillips
Zelda Sayre

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What is the epitaph on Lovecraft's grave stone?

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.
Dia Ad Aghaidh's Ad Aodaun, Agus Bas Dunarch Ort.
You Fool, Lovecraft is dead
I am Providence

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