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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?
(a) One of the sorn have returned with them
(b) Some eldil have returned with them
(c) One of the pfifltriggi have returned with them
(d) One of the hross have returned with them

3. Where can the eldil go?
(a) They can't go anywhere if it's cloudy
(b) They can only go a certain distance from Oyarsa
(c) They are able to move through time and space
(d) They cannot go more than a few miles from water

4. What is a pfifltriggi carving on one of the stones?
(a) A portrait of Ransom
(b) Hyoi, Whin and Ransom killing the hnakra
(c) Weston and Devine holding a gun
(d) A three dimensional representation of the space ship

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

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

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

8. Who was Hyoi talking to the day he and Ransom met?
(a) One of the eldil
(b) The Osarya
(c) Himself
(d) His son

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

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

11. What do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?
(a) To publish it and have a best-seller
(b) To become rich and famou
(c) To publish it and let people know there's life on other planets
(d) To warn the world about the coming events

12. 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

13. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?
(a) That it's perfectly normal to feel afraid
(b) That fear is good and there is reason for it
(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

14. What does Ransom what to prove to the hross during the hnakra hunt?
(a) That he is unafraid and used to adventure
(b) That he can hunt as well as them
(c) That humans can be honorable creatures too
(d) That they can count on him to do his part in the hunt

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the hnakra beloved by the hross?

2. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?

3. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

4. How do the hross view death?

5. Why have they decided to present the story as fiction?

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