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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?
(a) To become rich and famou
(b) To publish it and let people know there's life on other planets
(c) To publish it and have a best-seller
(d) To warn the world about the coming events

2. What does Thulcandra mean to the hross?
(a) The chief of their village
(b) A type of animal used like a horse
(c) Silent planet
(d) The name of their God

3. What is on the other side of the wall?
(a) Mountains
(b) A herd of cattle
(c) Darkness and some strange creatures
(d) Another house with lights on

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

5. Why doesn't Oyarsa want to kill Weston?
(a) He is reluctant to kill Weston because he is not from Malacandra
(b) He hasn't decided if Weston has done enough wrong to merit killing
(c) There is no capital punishment on Malacandra
(d) He doesn't believe in killing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a handramit?

2. What does Ransom think when the woman tells him about the Rise?

3. When Ransom looks around after landing he notices the ship is sitting on:

4. The view outside the window is:

5. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?

(see the answer key)

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