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

2. How does Ransom spend his time during the next few weeks?
(a) Looking at the amazing sights from his skylight and listening to the tinkling of tiny meteors on the hull of the ship
(b) Learning how to run the ship
(c) Exercising with weights
(d) Playing cribbage with Devine

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

4. The second man, who is an accomplice to the man in question #4 and who is a physicist.
(a) William
(b) Weston
(c) Wally
(d) Jack

5. How does Devine control Ransom when they leave the ship?
(a) Threatens to leave him there with no hope of returning to earth
(b) He holds a revolver on him
(c) Drugs him so that he is able to walk but only slowly
(d) Handcuffs him

Short Answer Questions

1. The effect of weightlessness is countered by:

2. Devine leaves Ransom supposedly to go into the kitchen to get what?

3. Who are the pfifltriggi?

4. The shape of the ship, as Weston explains, is:

5. When Ransom looks around after landing he notices the ship is sitting on:

Short Essay Questions

1. What steps does Ransom take to be more comfortable in the space ship?

2. What does Ransom feel about Devine, and why?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Ransom's dream foretell?

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

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

8. What does Ransom hear in the room and what does he decide?

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

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

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