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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three men doing in Ransom's dream?
(a) Having dinner
(b) Fighting
(c) Smoking pipes together
(d) Climbing over a wall

2. When Ransom approaches a small cottage looking for a possible place to spend the night, who does he meet?
(a) A colleague from his university
(b) Harry's brother
(c) Harry's mother
(d) A farmer

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

4. After Devine questions Ransom, what does he learn?
(a) Ransom quit his job at Cambridge
(b) Ransom lives down the street from the Rise
(c) Ransom plans to retire and write a book on Swahili
(d) Ransom is on a walking tour, of which no one knows

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the ship is landing what is Ransom doing?

2. Why does Ransom think about suicide?

3. The shape of the ship, as Weston explains, is:

4. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?

5. Why does Ransom becomes depressed as they enter Malacandra's atmosphere?

(see the answer key)

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