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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(b) A sorn or a God
(c) A human
(d) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra

11. What does Ransom see before he sees the sorn?
(a) The sorn's shadow on the wall
(b) A stream running through the cave
(c) Crystal rocks
(d) An eldil

12. 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

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

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

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