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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Hyoi as they rest in the boat next to the hnakra's body?
(a) He falls out of the boat on top of the hnakra and they laugh
(b) All the other hross come and pay him homage
(c) A water snake wraps around his ankle and bites him
(d) He is shot by Weston and Devine and dies

2. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A sorn or a God
(b) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(c) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra
(d) A human

3. What has the narrator and Ransom been investigating?
(a) The similarities in the English and hross language
(b) The mystery of the connection between Earth and Malacandra
(c) How space travel might be possible
(d) Ancient history that coincides with old earth Osarya

4. What does Ransom do with the knowledge he acquired on Malacandra?
(a) He decides to never speak of the journey to anyone on earth
(b) He begins to chronical his journey
(c) He begins to make notes for a dictionary of the Malacandrian language
(d) He decides to write a science fiction novel

5. 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) To plant the seed in the minds of its readers of the reality of the forces at work
(d) So that more people will read it

6. When Weston talks of humanity, what does the Oyarsa do?
(a) Scorns humans as being animals
(b) Challenges Weston's notion of what humanity really means
(c) Tells Weston that he is not human for killing the hross
(d) Tells Weston that his ideas are insane

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

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

9. When an eldil comes to Hyoi's boat what does he tell the hross?
(a) That Ransom shouldn't be there, but should be on his way to see Oyarsa
(b) That Hyoi must allow Ransom to kill the hnakra to prove himself
(c) That humans are not allowed to hunt hnakra
(d) That Ransom is in league with Weston and Devine

10. What does Ransom see before he sees the sorn?
(a) A stream running through the cave
(b) An eldil
(c) Crystal rocks
(d) The sorn's shadow on the wall

11. What interrupts Ransom and the Oyarsa's conversation?
(a) A fire in one of the towers
(b) Ransom being too tired to continue without a rest
(c) A group of eldil who fly in needing to see the Oyarsa
(d) A procession of hross enters carrying three dead hross in bundles and leading two prisoners

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

13. 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 must work the rest of their lives to support the families of the hross they killed
(c) That they are to be banished in the wilderness of Malacandra
(d) They will be held and brought to trial

14. How does Ransom feel after he helps kill the hnakra?
(a) Like he's a real warrior now
(b) Sick to his stomach
(c) Like he has finally grown up
(d) Like a child followng a parent on his first hunting trip

15. What does Oyarsa say of the history of earth?
(a) Thulcandra once had an Oyarsa, but he turned bad. He devastated the Earth's moon and brought extinction to the creatures of Malacandra
(b) That earth lost its Oyarsa because humans were bad
(c) That earth was dying and so their Oyarsa left
(d) That earth and Malacandra used to share a religion

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the milk for cheese come?

2. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?

3. Besides the three races Ransom has heard about, another race, now extinct, lived on Malacandra. What was it?

4. What does Ransom what to prove to the hross during the hnakra hunt?

5. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?

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