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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Meldilorn, home of Oyarsa , look like when Ransom first views it?
(a) A city of towers
(b) A city made mostly out of crystals
(c) A small village, though larger than Hyoi's village
(d) It is a sloping island in a circular lake

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

4. What does Oyarsa say of the history of earth?
(a) That earth and Malacandra used to share a religion
(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 was dying and so their Oyarsa left
(d) That earth lost its Oyarsa because humans were bad

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

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

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

8. When no one pays attention to Weston's threats or intimidations, what does he do?
(a) Pulls out a string of cheap beads, offering to trade
(b) Offers Devine as the guilty party
(c) Shoots the hross cloest to him
(d) Faints

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

10. After Weston and Devine are taken from Oyarsa 's presence what happens to Ransom?
(a) He is taken back to the space ship
(b) He returns to the place where he spent the night
(c) He returns to Augray's tower
(d) Ransom and Oyarsa spend the day in conversation

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

12. Why have they decided to present the story as fiction?
(a) So that more people will read it
(b) Because publishers won't look at it if they claim it's true
(c) Because Ransom himself is not sure it really happened
(d) To plant the seed in the minds of its readers of the reality of the forces at work

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ransom kidnapped, according to the Oyarsa?

2. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?

3. What is the name of the sorn Ransom meets in the cave?

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

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

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