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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ransom eat so much food when they have a meal after landing?
(a) In case he has an opportunity to escape
(b) Space travel has made him hungry
(c) They gave him very little food while traveling
(d) It's strange food and he really likes it

2. Why does Ransom becomes depressed as they enter Malacandra's atmosphere?
(a) He finally believes he'll never see earth again
(b) He feels powerless to help himself
(c) The light dims and the darker atmosphere depresses him
(d) He believes that his possible death is nearer

3. Who surrounds Ransom as they walk into the hross's home village?
(a) Hross children and other adult hross
(b) The women of the hross
(c) Small, furry animals who remind Ransom of dogs
(d) Armed hross who take him to a prison

4. How does Ransom spend his time during the next few weeks?
(a) Exercising with weights
(b) Playing cribbage with Devine
(c) Looking at the amazing sights from his skylight and listening to the tinkling of tiny meteors on the hull of the ship
(d) Learning how to run the ship

5. When Ransom asks why he is kidnapped, Weston tells him that:
(a) Ransom was the most outstanding example of humanity
(b) Ransom was to be used for space experiments
(c) Weston is only following orders and does not know why
(d) Ransom's knowledge of astronomy is needed

Short Answer Questions

1. Devine leaves Ransom supposedly to go into the kitchen to get what?

2. What does Weston and Devine do when they finish eating?

3. When the center of gravity shifts during approach to Malacandra what to the men do?

4. The core of the ship is:

5. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?

(see the answer key)

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