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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the location in question #3, Ransom meets a former schoolmate whose name is:
(a) Devine
(b) David
(c) Chris
(d) Henry

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

3. How does Ransom feel when he finds out he is in space?
(a) Indifferent
(b) Excited
(c) Surprised and shocked.
(d) Happy

4. What does Harry do at the Rise?
(a) Chops wood
(b) Milks the cows
(c) Cleans the yard
(d) Tends the furnace for the two professors who live at The Rise.

5. The name of the place where the simple-minded boy is being held and which Ransom finds to be an uninviting place:
(a) The Rise
(b) Barren Heights
(c) Jackson Hallows
(d) The Eyrie

Short Answer Questions

1. Ransom is a professor of:

2. The character in question #1 meets a woman who is searching for her simple-minded son, whose name is:

3. The humming noise Ransom hears makes him believe he is:

4. When Ransom asks why he is kidnapped, Weston tells him that:

5. Weston replies to Ransom's questions by telling him not to talk too much in order to:

(see the answer key)

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