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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. How does Ransom feel as Oyarsa approaches?
(a) Calm and peaceful
(b) Dizzy and unstable
(c) Happy and energetic
(d) His fingers begin to tingle and he feels weak

2. What does Ransom do after Hyoi dies?
(a) He finds Weston and kills him
(b) He apologizes to the other hross and weeps
(c) He leaves the boat and runs away
(d) He sets off for the mountains to go to Osaya

3. What happens to the three dead hross?
(a) Pfifltriggi touches each body with a crystal and the bodies disappear in a flash of blinding light
(b) Caskets are brought out to place them in
(c) He tells the bearers to return the dead hross to their families
(d) They are laid on a bier and burned

4. What is the first question Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom what he is afraid of?
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom where Weston and Devine are
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom where he came from
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom why he has come to Malacandra

5. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?
(a) Oyarsa asks Ransom if they are criminals back on earth
(b) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he saw them kill Hyoi
(c) Oyarsa asks Ransom if he wants them punished
(d) Oyarsa asks Ransom if the men are mentally deranged

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects about earth interest the sorns?

2. What does the Oyarsa say gives the Malacandrians peace?

3. What does the hross tell Ransom to do when they arrive on the island?

4. What does Ransom do with the knowledge he acquired on Malacandra?

5. What has the narrator and Ransom been investigating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ransom find at the edge of the grove? Describe it.

2. Who begins speaking in Chapter 22? How did he learn of Ransom?

3. What does Ransom do on the space ship during the return trip to earth?

4. Why have Weston and Devine brought Ransom to Malacandra?

5. What does Ransom find as he climbs the mountain pass? Describe the scene.

6. Explain the history of earth (Thulcandra) and its relationship to Malacandra.

7. What does the hross have to say about war on Malacandra?

8. How does the Osarya repond to Weston's speech?

9. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

10. Describe Ransom's first view of Meldilorn.

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