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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 does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
(a) Unable to see where the voice of Oyarsa is coming from, Weston thinks it is a ventriloquist trick
(b) He thinks it's possible the Oyarsa is actually real
(c) He believes they are going to be punished for killing the hross
(d) He believes he's hallucinating

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

3. 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

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 happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast
(b) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra
(c) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore
(d) The hnakra attacks and they kill it

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the ship after they land?

2. How do the hross view death?

3. How did the narrator learn of the story?

4. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?

5. Who takes over the telling of the story in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with the three dead hross?

2. What does Ransom do and what does he see after they land on earth?

3. What is the narrator's purpose in writing this story?

4. Who comes to Hyoi and Ransom as they move on the water searching for the hnakra? What does he have to say?

5. How does Ransom feel about going with Hyoi on the hunt for the hnakra? What does he want to prove?

6. What does the sorn and Ransom do when Ransom enters the cave?

7. What does Ransom tell the sorn about earth and what do the sorn think?

8. What does Ransom find at the edge of the grove? Describe it.

9. How does the Osarya repond to Weston's speech?

10. What does the hross have to say about war on Malacandra?

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