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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 do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?
(a) To publish it and have a best-seller
(b) To publish it and let people know there's life on other planets
(c) To warn the world about the coming events
(d) To become rich and famou

2. Where and with whom does Ransom spend the night on the island?
(a) Ransom sleeps in a guesthouse filled with creatures of all three types of Malacandrian
(b) In a room in one of the towers
(c) In a prison
(d) At an inn

3. Why have they decided to present the story as fiction?
(a) Because publishers won't look at it if they claim it's true
(b) Because Ransom himself is not sure it really happened
(c) To plant the seed in the minds of its readers of the reality of the forces at work
(d) So that more people will read it

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

5. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?
(a) Giving himself up to Weston and Devine
(b) Returning to the hross village instead of going to the mountains
(c) Laying down and going to sleep
(d) Feeling so desolate over Hyoi's death that he is unable to function

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hyoi talking to the day he and Ransom met?

2. What does the Osarya offer Ransom?

3. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

4. What does Oyarsa say the "bent one" on earth has done?

5. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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

9. What does Augray, the sorn, and Ransom talk about while eating?

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

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