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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?
(a) Makes the ship seem smaller
(b) Makes Ransom feel like his bones are breaking
(c) Turns walls into floors and floor into ceilings
(d) Makes the men much heavier

2. When Weston walks into Ransom's room, Weston is:
(a) apologetic
(b) mean
(c) crying
(d) nude

3. When the ship lands what does Ransom think about space?
(a) It is good to get out of space
(b) Space is alive and vibrant
(c) That space is dead and lifeless
(d) That it is lonely in space

4. What happens to the center of gravity on the ship as they near the planet?
(a) It turns off
(b) Nothing happens to it
(c) It becomes haywire moving all over the ship
(d) It shifts from the center to the side closest to the planet

5. Because of the point of view of the story, the reader knows:
(a) that Ransom is about to be sacrificed to the sun god
(b) that Ransom is on his way to Malacandra
(c) only what Ransom knows
(d) that Weston thinks Ransom is highly intelligent

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the center of gravity shifts during approach to Malacandra what to the men do?

3. What does Ransom hear as he runs through the forest?

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

5. Who is Oyarsa?

(see the answer key)

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