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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Ransom kidnapped, according to the Oyarsa?
(a) Weston and Devine hoped to trade him for gold and power
(b) Weston and Devine were told they would be killed if they didn't bring him
(c) Weston and Devine thought the sorn would leave them alone if they brought a human sacrifice
(d) Oyarsa told the sorns to tell the men that unless they brought a person from Thulcandra to him, they could take no more gold

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

3. 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

4. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?
(a) The faces of Oyarsa.
(b) All sorts of animals, some he's seen, some he hasn't
(c) The monuments are carved with images depicting the creation of Malacandra
(d) The three races of Malacandra working together

5. 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 must work the rest of their lives to support the families of the hross they killed
(d) That they are to be banished in the wilderness of Malacandra

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

7. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?
(a) Earth, Thulcandra, the silent planet
(b) Hyoi's hross village
(c) Weston and Devine
(d) The city where Oyarsa lives

8. How does Augray take Ransom to see Oyarsa ?
(a) They walk there together
(b) Ransom rides on Augray's shoulder
(c) He has a large, bird-like creature fly them
(d) They ride an animal from the herd

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does the Oyarsa say gives the Malacandrians peace?
(a) That there is no war on Malacandra
(b) The Malacandrians do not fear death
(c) That all three races cooperate
(d) That their planet is ruled by the Osarya

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hross tell Ransom to do when they arrive on the island?

2. What does Oyarsa say the "bent one" on earth has done?

3. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?

4. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?

5. What happens to the ship after they land?

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