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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The nameless pedestrian who is walking along an English lane is called:
(a) Jerrold Jones
(b) Edwin Ransom
(c) Larry Weaks
(d) Harold James

2. What does Ransom think when the woman tells him about the Rise?
(a) He thinks that is no place for a boy to work.
(b) He wonders what two professors are doing out in the country.
(c) They might be willing to give him a place to stay for the night..
(d) He wonders if he has already walked past it.

3. Ransom's dream mentioned in question #16 foreshadows:
(a) his eventual trip to Malacandra
(b) his death at an early age
(c) his becoming addicted to the drugs Devine gives him
(d) his desire to meet men from Mars

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ransom pilfer from the galley?

2. What happens when Weston takes Ransom and leads him to breakfast?

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

4. What does the woman ask of Ransom?

5. When Ransom asks why he is kidnapped, Weston tells him that:

(see the answer key)

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