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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the hross tell Ransom to do when they arrive on the island?
(a) He may wander about as he wishes and will be called by Oyarsa when it is time
(b) To stay on the beach until someone comes for him
(c) To report to the central building
(d) He points to a bench and tells Ransom to sit down

3. Why was Ransom kidnapped, according to the Oyarsa?
(a) Oyarsa told the sorns to tell the men that unless they brought a person from Thulcandra to him, they could take no more gold
(b) Weston and Devine thought the sorn would leave them alone if they brought a human sacrifice
(c) Weston and Devine were told they would be killed if they didn't bring him
(d) Weston and Devine hoped to trade him for gold and power

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

5. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?
(a) That Ransom and the narrator would change the future of earth
(b) That Ransom would travel to other planets
(c) That Ransom would become a famous professor
(d) it was about dramatic events taking place in the near future

6. What kind of food does Augray offer Ransom?
(a) Toofa, a grainy porridge like dish
(b) Vegetables and cheese
(c) Mushrooms and rice
(d) Stew and biscuits

7. What does Oyarsa say of the history of earth?
(a) That earth was dying and so their Oyarsa left
(b) That earth and Malacandra used to share a religion
(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 lost its Oyarsa because humans were bad

8. What does Hyoi tell Ransom about war between the three races of Malacandra?
(a) He can't imagine why they would ever wage war
(b) That the sorn and the hross have been at war for years
(c) That it happens, though not often
(d) That the sorn and the pfifltriggi are alligned against the hross

9. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?
(a) The three races of Malacandra working together
(b) The faces of Oyarsa.
(c) All sorts of animals, some he's seen, some he hasn't
(d) The monuments are carved with images depicting the creation of Malacandra

10. What does Meldilorn, home of Oyarsa , look like when Ransom first views it?
(a) It is a sloping island in a circular lake
(b) A city of towers
(c) A small village, though larger than Hyoi's village
(d) A city made mostly out of crystals

11. What subjects about earth interest the sorns?
(a) They want to know about the different types of animals
(b) They want to know what kind of food we grow
(c) They question Ransom at great length about the Earth and its geology, life forms, politics and history
(d) They as about computers and electricity

12. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?
(a) Ransom's description of war, slavery and other parts of human history astonish the sorns
(b) His talk of money and banking
(c) The fact that earth has no Oyarsa
(d) Ransom's description of big cities, like London

13. What is a pfifltriggi carving on one of the stones?
(a) Weston and Devine holding a gun
(b) A three dimensional representation of the space ship
(c) Hyoi, Whin and Ransom killing the hnakra
(d) A portrait of Ransom

14. How does Weston defend himself?
(a) He claims the hross stole from him and threatened him
(b) He tells Oyarsa that Earth civilization is superior to Malacandra's
(c) He says he was provoked by the hross
(d) He says Ransom is a dangerous man and he was trying to capture him

15. What does Ransom do with the knowledge he acquired on Malacandra?
(a) He decides to write a science fiction novel
(b) He begins to chronical his journey
(c) He decides to never speak of the journey to anyone on earth
(d) He begins to make notes for a dictionary of the Malacandrian language

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where can the eldil go?

3. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?

4. What does Ransom do after Hyoi dies?

5. When Weston talks of humanity, what does the Oyarsa do?

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