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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. Why is she concerned about Harry?
(a) Harry has fallen from a tree
(b) Harry is on the roof and can't get down
(c) He is late returning home from working at The Rise
(d) Harry has run away from home

2. The walls of the ship seem to shift constantly because:
(a) the walls are flexible rubber
(b) they are on drugs and it only seems that the walls are shifting
(c) the walls are made of liquid
(d) the center of the sphere is always down while they are in space

3. Why does Ransom eat so much food when they have a meal after landing?
(a) They gave him very little food while traveling
(b) It's strange food and he really likes it
(c) In case he has an opportunity to escape
(d) Space travel has made him hungry

4. What is a handramit?
(a) A glove that the hross wears when fishing
(b) The basket the hross in which the hross carries his food
(c) A steep, straight canyon
(d) The handrail on the hross's boat

5. Where does Ransom run as he's getting away?
(a) Back to the space ship
(b) Into a large, crowded city
(c) Across a field of plants that look like corn
(d) Into a forest of tall, purple plants

Short Answer Questions

1. At the location in question #3, Ransom meets a former schoolmate whose name is:

2. The name of the place where the simple-minded boy is being held and which Ransom finds to be an uninviting place:

3. What does the woman ask of Ransom?

4. What does Ransom do with his watch?

5. What does Ransom overhear Devine and Weston discussing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ransom's dream foretell?

2. What does Weston say to Ransom when he asked how the ship worked?

3. What do Weston and Devine demand of Ransom?

4. How does Ransom react to finally being free?

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

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

7. Ransom thinks a lot about his situation and comes up with an explanation of why he feels so good. Weston has his own explanation. What are the two men's explanations?

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

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

10. How does Devine manage to drug Ransom's drink?

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