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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?
(a) Some eldil have returned with them
(b) One of the pfifltriggi have returned with them
(c) One of the sorn have returned with them
(d) One of the hross have returned with them

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

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

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

5. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?
(a) Weston and Devine
(b) Earth, Thulcandra, the silent planet
(c) Hyoi's hross village
(d) The city where Oyarsa lives

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

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

8. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?
(a) Returning to the hross village instead of going to the mountains
(b) Feeling so desolate over Hyoi's death that he is unable to function
(c) Giving himself up to Weston and Devine
(d) Laying down and going to sleep

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

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

11. What happens to Hyoi as they rest in the boat next to the hnakra's body?
(a) A water snake wraps around his ankle and bites him
(b) He falls out of the boat on top of the hnakra and they laugh
(c) He is shot by Weston and Devine and dies
(d) All the other hross come and pay him homage

12. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?
(a) They spend the night on a boat
(b) They pitch a tent in the forest
(c) Augray takes Ransom to the home of a sorn to stop for the night. It is some kind of school
(d) In another cave

13. How does Augray take Ransom to see Oyarsa ?
(a) They walk there together
(b) Ransom rides on Augray's shoulder
(c) He has a large, bird-like creature fly them
(d) They ride an animal from the herd

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

15. Who was Hyoi talking to the day he and Ransom met?
(a) The Osarya
(b) Himself
(c) His son
(d) One of the eldil

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ransom kidnapped, according to the Oyarsa?

2. What does Ransom find in the cavern he enters?

3. Why doesn't Oyarsa want to kill Weston?

4. How did the narrator learn of the story?

5. Where can the eldil go?

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