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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?
(a) Earth, Thulcandra, the silent planet
(b) The city where Oyarsa lives
(c) Weston and Devine
(d) Hyoi's hross village

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

3. The core of the ship is:
(a) solid metal
(b) contains argon and helium
(c) made of molten lava
(d) hollow

4. When Weston talks of humanity, what does the Oyarsa do?
(a) Tells Weston that his ideas are insane
(b) Tells Weston that he is not human for killing the hross
(c) Scorns humans as being animals
(d) Challenges Weston's notion of what humanity really means

5. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) The hnakra attacks and they kill it
(b) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra
(c) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore
(d) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Augray take Ransom to see Oyarsa ?

3. How does Ransom feel as Oyarsa approaches?

4. What bothers Ransom about describing earth to the hross?

5. How does Weston defend himself?

(see the answer key)

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