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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?
(a) Turns walls into floors and floor into ceilings
(b) Makes the men much heavier
(c) Makes the ship seem smaller
(d) Makes Ransom feel like his bones are breaking

2. When Ransom asks why he is kidnapped, Weston tells him that:
(a) Weston is only following orders and does not know why
(b) Ransom's knowledge of astronomy is needed
(c) Ransom was to be used for space experiments
(d) Ransom was the most outstanding example of humanity

3. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) The temperature stays the same
(b) The temperature drops
(c) It becomes hotter
(d) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold

4. Because of the point of view of the story, the reader knows:
(a) only what Ransom knows
(b) that Ransom is about to be sacrificed to the sun god
(c) that Weston thinks Ransom is highly intelligent
(d) that Ransom is on his way to Malacandra

5. What happens to the center of gravity on the ship as they near the planet?
(a) It becomes haywire moving all over the ship
(b) Nothing happens to it
(c) It turns off
(d) It shifts from the center to the side closest to the planet

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the other side of the wall?

2. What does Ransom contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. Where does Ransom run as he's getting away?

4. Ransom strips off his clothes because:

5. When the ship enters Malacandra's orbit how does Ransom feel upon wakening?

(see the answer key)

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