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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) The temperature drops
(b) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold
(c) It becomes hotter
(d) The temperature stays the same

2. What does Ransom think when the woman tells him about the Rise?
(a) He wonders if he has already walked past it.
(b) He thinks that is no place for a boy to work.
(c) He wonders what two professors are doing out in the country.
(d) They might be willing to give him a place to stay for the night..

3. What does Ransom notice about the room in which he wakes?
(a) The room is oddly shaped and seems to continuously change proportions
(b) It is painted blue with white stripes
(c) It is icy cold
(d) It is so small he can't stand up all the way

4. Who surrounds Ransom as they walk into the hross's home village?
(a) Armed hross who take him to a prison
(b) Hross children and other adult hross
(c) The women of the hross
(d) Small, furry animals who remind Ransom of dogs

5. What does Ransom hear as he runs through the forest?
(a) Gunshots and some voices yelling
(b) Birds singing in the trees
(c) Fast, thudding steps behind him
(d) A strange snapping noise he can't place

Short Answer Questions

1. Because the moon looks so strange to Ransom, what does he think?

2. How does Devine control Ransom when they leave the ship?

3. How does the water feel to Ransom as he runs through it?

4. When the ship is landing what is Ransom doing?

5. What is all over the ground on the planet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ransom react to finally being free?

2. Ransom thinks a lot about his situation and comes up with an explanation of why he feels so good. Weston has his own explanation. What are the two men's explanations?

3. How does Ransom feel when he finds out he's been kidnapped and is in space?

4. What do Weston and Devine demand of Ransom?

5. How does Ransom feel about the conversation?

6. Give a general description about the planet's inhabitants and their government.

7. Describe the house where Ransom finds Harry and meets Weston and Devine.

8. Once Ransom settles into the routine of space travel how does he feel?

9. What does Ransom hear in the room and what does he decide?

10. What does Weston say to Ransom when he asked how the ship worked?

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