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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 is a pfifltriggi carving on one of the stones?
(a) A three dimensional representation of the space ship
(b) A portrait of Ransom
(c) Hyoi, Whin and Ransom killing the hnakra
(d) Weston and Devine holding a gun

2. From where does the milk for cheese come?
(a) Goats that roam the mountain
(b) A tree which puts out a milk-like substance
(c) Cows that they keep in the village
(d) The milk of a yellow grazing animal which young sorns herd in the forests

3. What happens to the ship after they land?
(a) It has landed on top of some trees and remains stuck there
(b) It has disintegrated
(c) Weston and Devine load it on a truck and drive away
(d) It is underwater, as it landed in the ocean

4. Where can the eldil go?
(a) They can only go a certain distance from Oyarsa
(b) They can't go anywhere if it's cloudy
(c) They are able to move through time and space
(d) They cannot go more than a few miles from water

5. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?
(a) Augray takes Ransom to the home of a sorn to stop for the night. It is some kind of school
(b) They pitch a tent in the forest
(c) They spend the night on a boat
(d) In another cave

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Hyoi as they rest in the boat next to the hnakra's body?

3. What has the narrator and Ransom been investigating?

4. When Weston talks of humanity, what does the Oyarsa do?

5. What does the Oyarsa order when it's obvious Weston is not going to believe in his existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ransom tell the sorn about earth and what do the sorn think?

2. How does Ransom feel about going with Hyoi on the hunt for the hnakra? What does he want to prove?

3. What happens with the three dead hross?

4. Describe a parallel between Ransom leaving to go to the mountains and the beginning of the book.

5. What does the sorn and Ransom do when Ransom enters the cave?

6. Describe Ransom's first view of Meldilorn.

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

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

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

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

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