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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. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

2. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?

3. What is the name of the sorn Ransom meets in the cave?

4. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augray, the sorn, and Ransom talk about while eating?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Besides collecting gold, what is Weston's motivation for coming to Malacandra?

10. What happens with the three dead hross?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this book, C.S. Lewis seems postulate that fear causes a great deal of harm. If fear was the opposite of love, how would that cause many of the world's problems? Based on Out of the Silent Planet, what do you think the author believed fear did to humanity?

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

In this book Weston talks about humanity eventually traveling the stars and conquering other planets, because "humans" were the best people ever created. What would you think if you met intelligent beings who did not resemble "humans?" What do you think are characteristics that make humans something other than "animal?" Do you believe a creature other than a "human" could have those characteristics? Why or Why not?

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