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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 Ransom hear as he runs through the forest?
(a) Gunshots and some voices yelling
(b) Birds singing in the trees
(c) Fast, thudding steps behind him
(d) A strange snapping noise he can't place

2. What does Ransom's thoughts about space foreshadow?
(a) The dark place where he will be taken
(b) The light of the religion on Malacandra
(c) The fact that he will travel in space again very soon
(d) The actual account of the solar system he will learn on Malacandra

3. When the center of gravity shifts during approach to Malacandra what to the men do?
(a) Begin moving objects around to account for a new floor
(b) Begin to climb the wall
(c) Grab onto a handhold and stay in one place
(d) Start tumbling uncontrollably

4. When he closely examines the walls how do they appear?
(a) They aren't really there
(b) They are square
(c) They are joined seamlessly with the floor
(d) They have small, raised bumps on them

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ransom do after Hyoi dies?

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

3. What are the walls made of?

4. Who is Oyarsa?

5. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?

(see the answer key)

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