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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 Ransom do with the Hross?
(a) Accepts an invitation to his home and gets in a boat with him
(b) Hits him over the head and runs
(c) Asks him where the biggest city is and starts off in that direction
(d) Offers him his watch as a token of friendship

2. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) It becomes hotter
(b) The temperature drops
(c) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold
(d) The temperature stays the same

3. Ransom's new vitality is:
(a) due to being so near the sun's rays
(b) because of the healthy food
(c) because of his elation at finally being in space
(d) because Devine has given him daily doses of concentrated vitamins

4. What does Ransom's thoughts about space foreshadow?
(a) The dark place where he will be taken
(b) The fact that he will travel in space again very soon
(c) The actual account of the solar system he will learn on Malacandra
(d) The light of the religion on Malacandra

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does most things on the planet appear to Ransom?

2. As Ransom loses consciousness what does he sense?

3. What do the creatures do?

4. What happens when Weston takes Ransom and leads him to breakfast?

5. To whom do Devine and Ransom plan to deliver Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Ransom figure out they are in space?

4. In Chapter six the ship begins to approach Malacandra. What happens to the inside of the ship as they come onto the planet?

5. Describe the ship as Ransom sees it.

6. How does Ransom feel when he finds out he's been kidnapped and is in space?

7. Describe Weston's attitude toward Devine. Tell why you think Weston and Devine are or are not friends.

8. Once Ransom settles into the routine of space travel how does he feel?

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

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

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