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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 do with his watch?
(a) Nothing, he doesn't have a watch
(b) He sets the correct time
(c) He takes it off and puts it in his pocket
(d) He winds it because it has stopped

2. What is an eldil?
(a) A child of the hross born with psychic abilities
(b) A group of hross who live together, like a tribe
(c) A plant which is the main diet stable of the hross
(d) A spirit like messenger of Oyarsa

3. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) It becomes hotter
(b) The temperature drops
(c) The temperature stays the same
(d) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold

4. What does Ransom notice about the room in which he wakes?
(a) It is so small he can't stand up all the way
(b) It is painted blue with white stripes
(c) It is icy cold
(d) The room is oddly shaped and seems to continuously change proportions

5. Rather than it being the moon that Ransom is seeing, Weston tells him that the large orb is:
(a) Jupiter
(b) the sun
(c) the earth
(d) a large light bulb

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ransom feel after he helps kill the hnakra?

2. Ransom wakes in a strange room that can be described how?

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

4. What does Ransom's thoughts about space foreshadow?

5. When the ship enters Malacandra's orbit how does Ransom feel upon wakening?

(see the answer key)

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