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

2. What happens to the ship after they land?
(a) It has disintegrated
(b) Weston and Devine load it on a truck and drive away
(c) It has landed on top of some trees and remains stuck there
(d) It is underwater, as it landed in the ocean

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?

3. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

4. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?

5. How does Weston defend himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

2. Describe Ransom's first view of Meldilorn.

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

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

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

6. Who begins speaking in Chapter 22? How did he learn of Ransom?

7. What does Ransom find as he climbs the mountain pass? Describe the scene.

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

9. Describe a parallel between Ransom leaving to go to the mountains and the beginning of the book.

10. What happens with the three dead hross?

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