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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sky on Malacandra look like when they embark?
(a) Has a green tint and yellow clouds
(b) Black; it is night
(c) Gray and cloudy
(d) Pale blue with distant pink clouds

2. What does Ransom see among the trees?
(a) Small red creatures dart in and out among the enormous trees
(b) Weston and Devine looking for him
(c) A strange looking yellow and blue bird
(d) A sorn looking for him

3. What does Ransom overhear Devine and Weston discussing?
(a) Something called a sorn
(b) How they plan to award Ransom great wealth after this trip
(c) How many days air they have left
(d) How many space suits are available

4. Who is Ransom talking to near the end of the chapter?
(a) His father
(b) Some fish he sees swimming in the stream
(c) Himself
(d) The tree he's leaning against

5. Weston believes that Ransom is incapable of what?
(a) Returning to earth without his help
(b) Understanding the mechanics of the ship
(c) Understanding the lofty motives of this voyage
(d) Learning to speak Malacandran

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the pfifltriggi?

2. Ransom is a professor of:

3. Who surrounds Ransom as they walk into the hross's home village?

4. When the ship lands what does Ransom think about space?

5. What wakes up Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a general description about the planet's inhabitants and their government.

2. What does Ransom see when the hross and him reach their destination? What does Ransom do?

3. Describe the house where Ransom finds Harry and meets Weston and Devine.

4. Describe the terrain Ransom sees as they embark from the ship.

5. Describe the dream Ransom had when Weston drugged his drink.

6. Describe the room where Ransom wakes after being knocked out at the Rise, the house where he met Weston and Devine.

7. Ransom overhears a conversation between Weston and Devine about what they plan to do with him. What was the plan?

8. Write about Ransom's feelings upon entering the atmosphere of Malacandra.

9. What does the hross do after Ransom eats some of his food?

10. Why do you think there is so much description in this chapter, and in the entire book?

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