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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ransom on the boat?
(a) He falls out
(b) He falls asleep
(c) He helps the hross by steering
(d) The ride is so rough that Ransom vomits

2. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A sorn or a God
(b) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra
(c) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(d) A human

3. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
(a) He believes he's hallucinating
(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) Unable to see where the voice of Oyarsa is coming from, Weston thinks it is a ventriloquist trick

4. Ransom contemplates what he has learned from Weston and realizes he's ready to face what?
(a) Killing Weston
(b) Never seeing earth again
(c) Being on another planet
(d) Death

5. How does Ransom spend his time during the next few weeks?
(a) Looking at the amazing sights from his skylight and listening to the tinkling of tiny meteors on the hull of the ship
(b) Playing cribbage with Devine
(c) Learning how to run the ship
(d) Exercising with weights

Short Answer Questions

1. When he closely examines the walls how do they appear?

2. Because of the point of view of the story, the reader knows:

3. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

4. What does Ransom think when the woman tells him about the Rise?

5. What does Ransom notice about the room in which he wakes?

(see the answer key)

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