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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) All sorts of animals, some he's seen, some he hasn't
(d) The three races of Malacandra working together

4. What does Hyoi tell Ransom about war between the three races of Malacandra?
(a) That it happens, though not often
(b) That the sorn and the pfifltriggi are alligned against the hross
(c) He can't imagine why they would ever wage war
(d) That the sorn and the hross have been at war for years

5. Besides the three races Ransom has heard about, another race, now extinct, lived on Malacandra. What was it?
(a) A race of giants who lived in the mountains
(b) A race of birds once lived on the planet
(c) A race of humans
(d) Intelligent apes

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

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

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

9. How does Augray take Ransom to see Oyarsa ?
(a) They walk there together
(b) They ride an animal from the herd
(c) He has a large, bird-like creature fly them
(d) Ransom rides on Augray's shoulder

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

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

12. What interrupts Ransom and the Oyarsa's conversation?
(a) A fire in one of the towers
(b) Ransom being too tired to continue without a rest
(c) A group of eldil who fly in needing to see the Oyarsa
(d) A procession of hross enters carrying three dead hross in bundles and leading two prisoners

13. What happens to the ship after they land?
(a) Weston and Devine load it on a truck and drive away
(b) It has disintegrated
(c) It is underwater, as it landed in the ocean
(d) It has landed on top of some trees and remains stuck there

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

15. How does Weston defend himself?
(a) He claims the hross stole from him and threatened him
(b) He says he was provoked by the hross
(c) He says Ransom is a dangerous man and he was trying to capture him
(d) He tells Oyarsa that Earth civilization is superior to Malacandra's

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the hnakra beloved by the hross?

2. When no one pays attention to Weston's threats or intimidations, what does he do?

3. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?

4. How does Ransom feel after he helps kill the hnakra?

5. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?

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