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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 kind of food does Augray offer Ransom?
(a) Mushrooms and rice
(b) Toofa, a grainy porridge like dish
(c) Stew and biscuits
(d) Vegetables and cheese

2. What does the sorn look like?
(a) A human male
(b) Heavy, with three arms and blue eyes
(c) Elongated features, small eyes and is covered with a light-colored feathery coat
(d) Very short, like a dwarf with a large, thick nose

3. What does Ransom do with the knowledge he acquired on Malacandra?
(a) He decides to never speak of the journey to anyone on earth
(b) He begins to make notes for a dictionary of the Malacandrian language
(c) He decides to write a science fiction novel
(d) He begins to chronical his journey

4. What does Meldilorn, home of Oyarsa , look like when Ransom first views it?
(a) A city made mostly out of crystals
(b) It is a sloping island in a circular lake
(c) A city of towers
(d) A small village, though larger than Hyoi's village

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 spend the night on a boat
(c) They pitch a tent in the forest
(d) In another cave

Short Answer Questions

1. What about earth amazes the sorns the most?

2. What does Ransom understand because of strange, flickering changes in the light?

3. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?

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

5. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's purpose in writing this story?

2. What happens with the three dead hross?

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

4. Besides collecting gold, what is Weston's motivation for coming to Malacandra?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Ransom do and what does he see after they land on earth?

10. Who is brought in front of Oyarsa and what happens?

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