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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is all over the ground on the planet?
(a) Green slime
(b) A pinkish foliage
(c) Red and gold leaves
(d) Black moss

2. The shape of the ship, as Weston explains, is:
(a) a sphere
(b) cylindrical
(c) hexangonal
(d) square

3. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) The hnakra attacks and they kill it
(b) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore
(c) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast
(d) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra

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

5. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?
(a) Oyarsa is eternal, is everywhere, and is invisible, like an eldil
(b) He kills criminals
(c) He only came to Malacandra a short time ago
(d) No one knows who he/she is

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the walls made of?

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

3. What does Devine actually go into the kitchen to do?

4. The nameless pedestrian who is walking along an English lane is called:

5. What is the name of the sorn Ransom meets in the cave?

(see the answer key)

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