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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The walls of the ship seem to shift constantly because:
(a) the walls are flexible rubber
(b) the center of the sphere is always down while they are in space
(c) the walls are made of liquid
(d) they are on drugs and it only seems that the walls are shifting

2. What does Ransom contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Whether summer has started on earth
(b) If Harry's mother will report him missing
(c) The amazement of landing on another planet
(d) The nature of his fear and confronting the unknown

3. Ransom contemplates what he has learned from Weston and realizes he's ready to face what?
(a) Never seeing earth again
(b) Being on another planet
(c) Death
(d) Killing Weston

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

5. Weston treats Ransom with contempt because:
(a) Weston knows Ransom is a philanderer
(b) Weston thinks Ransom is too old for space travel
(c) Weston feels superior to Ransom
(d) Weston knows Ransom cheated in college

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Devine questions Ransom, what does he learn?

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

4. While drugged, Ransom has a dream in which he meets:

5. The name of the place where the simple-minded boy is being held and which Ransom finds to be an uninviting place:

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