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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Oyarsa say gives the Malacandrians peace?
(a) That all three races cooperate
(b) The Malacandrians do not fear death
(c) That there is no war on Malacandra
(d) That their planet is ruled by the Osarya

2. What does the Oyarsa say Weston and Devine must do because of their killing?
(a) That they must work the rest of their lives to support the families of the hross they killed
(b) That they are to be banished in the wilderness of Malacandra
(c) They will be held and brought to trial
(d) They must return to Earth in their space ship the following day

3. What does the sorn look like?
(a) Elongated features, small eyes and is covered with a light-colored feathery coat
(b) A human male
(c) Heavy, with three arms and blue eyes
(d) Very short, like a dwarf with a large, thick nose

4. After Weston and Devine are taken from Oyarsa 's presence what happens to Ransom?
(a) Ransom and Oyarsa spend the day in conversation
(b) He returns to Augray's tower
(c) He returns to the place where he spent the night
(d) He is taken back to the space ship

5. What is the name of the sorn Ransom meets in the cave?
(a) Nigerin
(b) Augray
(c) Tregan
(d) Hasdor

6. What is the first question Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom what he is afraid of?
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom why he has come to Malacandra
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom where he came from
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom where Weston and Devine are

7. How did the narrator learn of the story?
(a) He was there when the space ship landed
(b) He was an old friend of Ransom's
(c) From Ransom after writing him a letter asking about a Latin word
(d) He ran into Weston and Weston told him

8. What reason does Augray give for not going to Oyarsa 's island with Ransom?
(a) Augray and the hross manning the boat don't get along
(b) Augray needs to head home
(c) Oyarsa has not called for him
(d) The Oyarsa does not allow Augray on the island

9. Who takes over the telling of the story in Chapter 22?
(a) One of the eldil
(b) The Osarya of Malacandra
(c) The narrator
(d) Weston

10. What does Hyoi tell Ransom about the eldil?
(a) That they are hard to see and Ransom might not be able to see them
(b) That they tend to be arrogant and demanding
(c) That they look like fire
(d) That they are shy creatures and come only at Oyarsa's command

11. What does Ransom what to prove to the hross during the hnakra hunt?
(a) That they can count on him to do his part in the hunt
(b) That humans can be honorable creatures too
(c) That he can hunt as well as them
(d) That he is unafraid and used to adventure

12. How often do the hross marry?
(a) They have no marriage and mate with whoever they want
(b) The women have several husbands and many children
(c) They marry only once and mate for only a short period of their lives
(d) The hross do not mate at all

13. Why doesn't Oyarsa want to kill Weston?
(a) He hasn't decided if Weston has done enough wrong to merit killing
(b) He is reluctant to kill Weston because he is not from Malacandra
(c) There is no capital punishment on Malacandra
(d) He doesn't believe in killing

14. What does Oyarsa say of the history of earth?
(a) That earth was dying and so their Oyarsa left
(b) That earth lost its Oyarsa because humans were bad
(c) Thulcandra once had an Oyarsa, but he turned bad. He devastated the Earth's moon and brought extinction to the creatures of Malacandra
(d) That earth and Malacandra used to share a religion

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?

2. What does Oyarsa say the "bent one" on earth has done?

3. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?

4. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

5. From where does the milk for cheese come?

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