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

2. What does the sorn look like?
(a) Very short, like a dwarf with a large, thick nose
(b) Heavy, with three arms and blue eyes
(c) Elongated features, small eyes and is covered with a light-colored feathery coat
(d) A human male

3. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?
(a) That Ransom will meet the woman he marries when he returns
(b) That Ransom will become a great world leader on earth
(c) That contact with Thulcandra will be open again soon, and they may meet again one day
(d) That Ransom will live to be 110 years old

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

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

6. 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) They will be held and brought to trial
(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

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

8. From where does the milk for cheese come?
(a) Goats that roam the mountain
(b) The milk of a yellow grazing animal which young sorns herd in the forests
(c) A tree which puts out a milk-like substance
(d) Cows that they keep in the village

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Ransom understand because of strange, flickering changes in the light?
(a) That there are many eldil present on the island
(b) That many things might be invisible to him
(c) That the sun is about to set
(d) That the cities in Malacandra use some sort of artificial lighting

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the hnakra beloved by the hross?

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

3. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?

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

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

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