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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meldilorn, home of Oyarsa , look like when Ransom first views it?

2. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

3. From where does the milk for cheese come?

4. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?

5. What does the Oyarsa say Weston and Devine must do because of their killing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is brought in front of Oyarsa and what happens?

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

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

5. What happens with the three dead hross?

6. Why have Weston and Devine brought Ransom to Malacandra?

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

8. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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

10. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ransom spent some time in this book at a hross settlement. Describe that settlement. Do you think you would like to live in a place like it? Did it seem peaceful? Boring? Interesting? What about the hross? Did you like them? Would you want to be friends with Hyoi?

Essay Topic 2

On Malacandra, the hross, Hyoi, says he can't think of any reason for the three peoples of Malacondra to wage war. What might be reasons that war starts in this world? What circumstances and ideas on Malacandra seem to preclude war as an option there? What do you think might be necessary for war to end on this world, given what Malacandra was described as being like?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay comparing Weston's plans for conquering other planets and killing off their population, to make room for humans, and what has happen on this planet as people cleared out the earth of many animals to make use of the land for ourselves. Are they similar? Do the animals deserve more, less or the same consideration as inhabitants of another planet? Is this planet enriched or impoverished because of the number of extinct animals?

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