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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 Harry do at the Rise?
(a) Tends the furnace for the two professors who live at The Rise.
(b) Cleans the yard
(c) Milks the cows
(d) Chops wood

2. The view outside the window is:
(a) a beautiful waterfall
(b) of stars and what may be the moon
(c) a forest that he doesn't recognize
(d) a meadow full of cows

3. What does the ship run on, as explained by Weston?
(a) geothermal energy
(b) solar radiation
(c) hydrogen
(d) nuclear power

4. How does Ransom feel when he finds out he is in space?
(a) Happy
(b) Surprised and shocked.
(c) Indifferent
(d) Excited

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the center of gravity shifts during approach to Malacandra what to the men do?

2. Who is Ransom talking to near the end of the chapter?

3. Ransom is a professor of:

4. Weston treats Ransom with contempt because:

5. When Weston confirms that Ransom is on a spaceship, Ransom is overcome with:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ransom feel about the conversation?

3. Describe the scene of Ransom meeting his first hross.

4. How does Ransom escape and where does he go?

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

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

7. How does Ransom react to finally being free?

8. 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?

9. Describe the delusion Ransom is experiencing in the forest.

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

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