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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Weston defend himself?
(a) He claims the hross stole from him and threatened him
(b) He says Ransom is a dangerous man and he was trying to capture him
(c) He says he was provoked by the hross
(d) He tells Oyarsa that Earth civilization is superior to Malacandra's

2. What does Meldilorn, home of Oyarsa , look like when Ransom first views it?
(a) A city of towers
(b) A city made mostly out of crystals
(c) A small village, though larger than Hyoi's village
(d) It is a sloping island in a circular lake

3. What does the Oyarsa say Weston and Devine must do because of their killing?
(a) They must return to Earth in their space ship the following day
(b) That they are to be banished in the wilderness of Malacandra
(c) They will be held and brought to trial
(d) That they must work the rest of their lives to support the families of the hross they killed

4. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?
(a) Ransom's description of big cities, like London
(b) The fact that earth has no Oyarsa
(c) Ransom's description of war, slavery and other parts of human history astonish the sorns
(d) His talk of money and banking

5. From where does the milk for cheese come?
(a) A tree which puts out a milk-like substance
(b) The milk of a yellow grazing animal which young sorns herd in the forests
(c) Cows that they keep in the village
(d) Goats that roam the mountain

6. How did the narrator learn of the story?
(a) He was there when the space ship landed
(b) He was an old friend of Ransom's
(c) He ran into Weston and Weston told him
(d) From Ransom after writing him a letter asking about a Latin word

7. Why have they decided to present the story as fiction?
(a) Because Ransom himself is not sure it really happened
(b) Because publishers won't look at it if they claim it's true
(c) So that more people will read it
(d) To plant the seed in the minds of its readers of the reality of the forces at work

8. What happens to the three dead hross?
(a) Pfifltriggi touches each body with a crystal and the bodies disappear in a flash of blinding light
(b) They are laid on a bier and burned
(c) Caskets are brought out to place them in
(d) He tells the bearers to return the dead hross to their families

9. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?
(a) That Ransom and the narrator would change the future of earth
(b) it was about dramatic events taking place in the near future
(c) That Ransom would travel to other planets
(d) That Ransom would become a famous professor

10. Who takes over the telling of the story in Chapter 22?
(a) The narrator
(b) One of the eldil
(c) The Osarya of Malacandra
(d) Weston

11. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
(a) He thinks it's possible the Oyarsa is actually real
(b) He believes they are going to be punished for killing the hross
(c) He believes he's hallucinating
(d) Unable to see where the voice of Oyarsa is coming from, Weston thinks it is a ventriloquist trick

12. What does Ransom find in the cavern he enters?
(a) A sorn
(b) Walls covered in gold
(c) A bear like creature, fast asleep
(d) Bones of animals

13. What does Oyarsa say the "bent one" on earth has done?
(a) Urged humans to fight among themselves
(b) Made men afraid of death
(c) Created racism
(d) Turned the earth into a polluted mess

14. What kind of food does Augray offer Ransom?
(a) Mushrooms and rice
(b) Toofa, a grainy porridge like dish
(c) Stew and biscuits
(d) Vegetables and cheese

15. What subjects about earth interest the sorns?
(a) They want to know about the different types of animals
(b) They as about computers and electricity
(c) They question Ransom at great length about the Earth and its geology, life forms, politics and history
(d) They want to know what kind of food we grow

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Oyarsa say gives the Malacandrians peace?

2. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?

3. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?

4. Why was Ransom kidnapped, according to the Oyarsa?

5. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

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