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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Weston takes Ransom and leads him to breakfast?
(a) They are acosted by the strange creatures in Ransom's dream
(b) They are bathed in an extrememly bright light
(c) They begin floating to the ceiling
(d) They find Devine unconscious at a table

2. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?
(a) Makes Ransom feel like his bones are breaking
(b) Turns walls into floors and floor into ceilings
(c) Makes the ship seem smaller
(d) Makes the men much heavier

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

4. 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 nature of his fear and confronting the unknown
(d) The amazement of landing on another planet

5. The humming noise Ransom hears makes him believe he is:
(a) must be suffering from the drug's aftereffects
(b) hearing a refridgerator running
(c) hearing a chorus of angels in the distance
(d) in some sort of airship

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Devine think the sorn plan to do with Ransom?

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

4. What happens to Ransom on the boat?

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

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