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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry do at the Rise?
(a) Cleans the yard
(b) Milks the cows
(c) Chops wood
(d) Tends the furnace for the two professors who live at The Rise.

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

3. Because of the point of view of the story, the reader knows:
(a) that Ransom is about to be sacrificed to the sun god
(b) that Ransom is on his way to Malacandra
(c) that Weston thinks Ransom is highly intelligent
(d) only what Ransom knows

4. What does Ransom do when he finally stops for a moment?
(a) Picks up some berries that might be edible
(b) Sits down beside a stream of warm water
(c) Sits down and begins to cry
(d) Ptrips off his shirt and pants and bathes in a stream

5. 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 lives down the street from the Rise
(d) Ransom plans to retire and write a book on Swahili

Short Answer Questions

1. Where and with whom does Ransom spend the night on the island?

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

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

4. When no one pays attention to Weston's threats or intimidations, what does he do?

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

(see the answer key)

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