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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first question Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom why he has come to Malacandra
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom what he is afraid of?
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom where he came from
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom where Weston and Devine are

2. What does the hross tell Ransom to do when they arrive on the island?
(a) He may wander about as he wishes and will be called by Oyarsa when it is time
(b) He points to a bench and tells Ransom to sit down
(c) To report to the central building
(d) To stay on the beach until someone comes for him

3. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?
(a) No one knows who he/she is
(b) He only came to Malacandra a short time ago
(c) Oyarsa is eternal, is everywhere, and is invisible, like an eldil
(d) He kills criminals

4. What does Ransom understand because of strange, flickering changes in the light?
(a) That the cities in Malacandra use some sort of artificial lighting
(b) That there are many eldil present on the island
(c) That many things might be invisible to him
(d) That the sun is about to set

5. Where and with whom does Ransom spend the night on the island?
(a) In a room in one of the towers
(b) At an inn
(c) Ransom sleeps in a guesthouse filled with creatures of all three types of Malacandrian
(d) In a prison

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

7. What does Ransom do after Hyoi dies?
(a) He leaves the boat and runs away
(b) He finds Weston and kills him
(c) He sets off for the mountains to go to Osaya
(d) He apologizes to the other hross and weeps

8. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?
(a) That fear is good and there is reason for it
(b) That it's perfectly normal to feel afraid
(c) Oyarsa tells Ransom that his fear has caused his own troubles and he need not be afraid
(d) That he must not be much of a man if he's frightened

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

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

11. What does Hyoi tell Ransom about war between the three races of Malacandra?
(a) That the sorn and the hross have been at war for years
(b) That it happens, though not often
(c) That the sorn and the pfifltriggi are alligned against the hross
(d) He can't imagine why they would ever wage war

12. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?
(a) Laying down and going to sleep
(b) Feeling so desolate over Hyoi's death that he is unable to function
(c) Giving himself up to Weston and Devine
(d) Returning to the hross village instead of going to the mountains

13. What subjects about earth interest the sorns?
(a) They as about computers and electricity
(b) They want to know about the different types of animals
(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

14. What does the Oyarsa order when it's obvious Weston is not going to believe in his existence?
(a) He orders him to kneel
(b) He orders him to be put in chains
(c) He orders him off the island
(d) Oyarsa orders Weston to be taken away to have his head dunked in cold water

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

2. Who was Hyoi talking to the day he and Ransom met?

3. How do the hross view death?

4. What happens to Hyoi as they rest in the boat next to the hnakra's body?

5. What does the sorn look like?

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