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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 it happens, though not often
(c) That the sorn and the pfifltriggi are alligned against the hross
(d) That the sorn and the hross have been at war for years

2. Why is Ransom confused as he climbs through the mountain pass?
(a) The pass has many small paths diverging from it
(b) He can't see anything that might be Augray's Tower
(c) He keeps hearing voices in the wind
(d) Thin air and altitude

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

4. What does Ransom do after Hyoi dies?
(a) He apologizes to the other hross and weeps
(b) He sets off for the mountains to go to Osaya
(c) He leaves the boat and runs away
(d) He finds Weston and kills him

5. What does the Oyarsa order when it's obvious Weston is not going to believe in his existence?
(a) He orders him to kneel
(b) Oyarsa orders Weston to be taken away to have his head dunked in cold water
(c) He orders him to be put in chains
(d) He orders him off the island

6. What does Ransom find in the cavern he enters?
(a) Bones of animals
(b) A bear like creature, fast asleep
(c) Walls covered in gold
(d) A sorn

7. What does the Osarya offer Ransom?
(a) A new name
(b) The opportunity to stay on Malacandra
(c) All the gold he can put into one of the empty rooms on the ship
(d) Psychic ability similar to the eldil

8. What does Ransom understand because of strange, flickering changes in the light?
(a) That the sun is about to set
(b) That many things might be invisible to him
(c) That the cities in Malacandra use some sort of artificial lighting
(d) That there are many eldil present on the island

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

10. What do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?
(a) To warn the world about the coming events
(b) To publish it and let people know there's life on other planets
(c) To become rich and famou
(d) To publish it and have a best-seller

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

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

13. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he saw them kill Hyoi
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he wants them punished
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom if the men are mentally deranged
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom if they are criminals back on earth

14. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A sorn or a God
(b) A human
(c) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(d) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra

15. What interrupts Ransom and the Oyarsa's conversation?
(a) A group of eldil who fly in needing to see the Oyarsa
(b) A fire in one of the towers
(c) Ransom being too tired to continue without a rest
(d) A procession of hross enters carrying three dead hross in bundles and leading two prisoners

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?

2. Where can the eldil go?

3. What is the first question Oyarsa asks Ransom?

4. From where does the milk for cheese come?

5. What does the hross tell Ransom to do when they arrive on the island?

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