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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Ransom take on the ship?
(a) Weapons officer
(b) Morale officer
(c) Navigator
(d) Cook

2. Because the moon looks so strange to Ransom, what does he think?
(a) He thinks he's asleep and dreaming
(b) He thinks it must be a harvest moon
(c) He wonders if the drug he was given in his drink has affected his vision
(d) He thinks Weston must have hypnotized him

3. Ransom's new vitality is:
(a) due to being so near the sun's rays
(b) because of his elation at finally being in space
(c) because of the healthy food
(d) because Devine has given him daily doses of concentrated vitamins

4. How does he deal with his thirst?
(a) He chews some of the berries
(b) He ignores it
(c) He drinks from the stream
(d) He dips his shirt in the stream and dribbles a small amount of water in his mouth

5. Why have they decided to present the story as fiction?
(a) Because Ransom himself is not sure it really happened
(b) Because publishers won't look at it if they claim it's true
(c) So that more people will read it
(d) To plant the seed in the minds of its readers of the reality of the forces at work

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Augray give for not going to Oyarsa 's island with Ransom?

2. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?

3. What does Ransom's thoughts about space foreshadow?

4. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?

5. What has the narrator and Ransom been investigating?

(see the answer key)

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