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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ransom is a professor of:
(a) astronomy
(b) sociology
(c) philology or languages
(d) herbology

2. After Devine questions Ransom, what does he learn?
(a) Ransom is on a walking tour, of which no one knows
(b) Ransom quit his job at Cambridge
(c) Ransom plans to retire and write a book on Swahili
(d) Ransom lives down the street from the Rise

3. How does the water feel to Ransom as he runs through it?
(a) Very cold, almost icy
(b) It feels warm
(c) Sticky, like it was clinging to him
(d) Heavier than earth's water

4. As they land, what does Random come to believe about planets?
(a) They all have human life
(b) That they are accidents of the cosmos
(c) That planets are dull, lifeless islands in space
(d) That they are alive and welcoming

5. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A sorn or a God
(b) A human
(c) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(d) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ransom see before he sees the sorn?

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

3. What does Ransom what to prove to the hross during the hnakra hunt?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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