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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 Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
(a) He thinks it's possible the Oyarsa is actually real
(b) Unable to see where the voice of Oyarsa is coming from, Weston thinks it is a ventriloquist trick
(c) He believes he's hallucinating
(d) He believes they are going to be punished for killing the hross

2. How often do the hross marry?
(a) The women have several husbands and many children
(b) They marry only once and mate for only a short period of their lives
(c) They have no marriage and mate with whoever they want
(d) The hross do not mate at all

3. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) The hnakra attacks and they kill it
(b) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra
(c) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast
(d) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore

4. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?
(a) Oyarsa tells Ransom that his fear has caused his own troubles and he need not be afraid
(b) That fear is good and there is reason for it
(c) That it's perfectly normal to feel afraid
(d) That he must not be much of a man if he's frightened

5. What happens to Hyoi as they rest in the boat next to the hnakra's body?
(a) All the other hross come and pay him homage
(b) He falls out of the boat on top of the hnakra and they laugh
(c) He is shot by Weston and Devine and dies
(d) A water snake wraps around his ankle and bites him

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts Ransom and the Oyarsa's conversation?

2. What happens to the three dead hross?

3. From where does the milk for cheese come?

4. Besides the three races Ransom has heard about, another race, now extinct, lived on Malacandra. What was it?

5. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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

8. Who comes to Hyoi and Ransom as they move on the water searching for the hnakra? What does he have to say?

9. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

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

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