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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Osarya offer Ransom?
(a) All the gold he can put into one of the empty rooms on the ship
(b) The opportunity to stay on Malacandra
(c) A new name
(d) Psychic ability similar to the eldil

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

4. How often do the hross marry?
(a) They marry only once and mate for only a short period of their lives
(b) The hross do not mate at all
(c) They have no marriage and mate with whoever they want
(d) The women have several husbands and many children

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

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

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

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

9. How do the hross view death?
(a) As the end, that there is no life after death
(b) As a wonderful transformation
(c) As a choice to take when ready
(d) With horror and fear

10. What does Ransom find in the cavern he enters?
(a) Bones of animals
(b) Walls covered in gold
(c) A bear like creature, fast asleep
(d) A sorn

11. How does Ransom feel as Oyarsa approaches?
(a) Happy and energetic
(b) His fingers begin to tingle and he feels weak
(c) Dizzy and unstable
(d) Calm and peaceful

12. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?
(a) In another cave
(b) Augray takes Ransom to the home of a sorn to stop for the night. It is some kind of school
(c) They pitch a tent in the forest
(d) They spend the night on a boat

13. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
(a) He believes he's hallucinating
(b) He believes they are going to be punished for killing the hross
(c) He thinks it's possible the Oyarsa is actually real
(d) Unable to see where the voice of Oyarsa is coming from, Weston thinks it is a ventriloquist trick

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?

2. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?

3. What does Ransom see before he sees the sorn?

4. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?

5. Why is the hnakra beloved by the hross?

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