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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he saw them kill Hyoi
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom if the men are mentally deranged
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom if they are criminals back on earth
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he wants them punished

2. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast
(b) The hnakra attacks and they kill it
(c) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore
(d) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra

3. Why is Ransom confused as he climbs through the mountain pass?
(a) The pass has many small paths diverging from it
(b) He can't see anything that might be Augray's Tower
(c) He keeps hearing voices in the wind
(d) Thin air and altitude

4. 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) it was about dramatic events taking place in the near future
(d) That Ransom and the narrator would change the future of earth

5. What is the name of the sorn Ransom meets in the cave?
(a) Hasdor
(b) Tregan
(c) Nigerin
(d) Augray

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

7. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?
(a) He met a sorn, the source of much of his fear since landing on Malacandra, and was not afraid
(b) He has eaten and has slept
(c) Because he hasn't seen or heard from Weston or Devine
(d) Because he's not lost, wandering the mountains

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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 the sorn and the pfifltriggi are alligned against the hross
(c) That it happens, though not often
(d) He can't imagine why they would ever wage war

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

2. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

3. What do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?

4. What happens to the ship after they land?

5. What subjects about earth interest the sorns?

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