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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The effect of weightlessness is countered by:
(a) magnetic boots
(b) pressurization
(c) a weight belt
(d) an ionic deconverter

3. What does the sky on Malacandra look like when they embark?
(a) Has a green tint and yellow clouds
(b) Black; it is night
(c) Gray and cloudy
(d) Pale blue with distant pink clouds

4. What are the three men doing in Ransom's dream?
(a) Smoking pipes together
(b) Fighting
(c) Climbing over a wall
(d) Having dinner

5. The view outside the window is:
(a) a meadow full of cows
(b) a forest that he doesn't recognize
(c) a beautiful waterfall
(d) of stars and what may be the moon

Short Answer Questions

1. How does most things on the planet appear to Ransom?

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

3. The walls of the ship seem to shift constantly because:

4. What is on the other side of the wall?

5. Ransom's dream mentioned in question #16 foreshadows:

(see the answer key)

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