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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ransom do when he sits down for a moment to rest?
(a) He hides behind a large tree
(b) He relaxes and quickly falls asleep
(c) He pulls out his knife and digs in the soil
(d) He takes a drink of water

2. How does Devine control Ransom when they leave the ship?
(a) Handcuffs him
(b) Drugs him so that he is able to walk but only slowly
(c) He holds a revolver on him
(d) Threatens to leave him there with no hope of returning to earth

3. What happens when the three men enter the water to join the sorns on the other shore?
(a) Devine falls in a deep part and starts to drown
(b) Weston pushes Ransom, who trips and becomes totally soaked
(c) A large, black creature attacks them
(d) Ransom is able to grab the gun from Weston

4. What is an eldil?
(a) A spirit like messenger of Oyarsa
(b) A group of hross who live together, like a tribe
(c) A child of the hross born with psychic abilities
(d) A plant which is the main diet stable of the hross

5. What does Weston and Devine do when they finish eating?
(a) Carry the chairs to the hut
(b) Clear the table
(c) They push Ransom closer to the edge of the water
(d) Wash up in the water

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes up Ransom?

2. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

3. When an eldil comes to Hyoi's boat what does he tell the hross?

4. Rather than it being the moon that Ransom is seeing, Weston tells him that the large orb is:

5. The humming noise Ransom hears makes him believe he is:

(see the answer key)

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