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

2. What does Oyarsa say the "bent one" on earth has done?
(a) Urged humans to fight among themselves
(b) Made men afraid of death
(c) Created racism
(d) Turned the earth into a polluted mess

3. Why is the hnakra beloved by the hross?
(a) They appreciate the sport of hunting them
(b) The danger of hunting them makes life more vivid and enjoyable
(c) The hnakra is the best food the hross can eat
(d) The hross came from the hnakra thousands of years ago

4. Why doesn't Oyarsa want to kill Weston?
(a) He is reluctant to kill Weston because he is not from Malacandra
(b) He hasn't decided if Weston has done enough wrong to merit killing
(c) There is no capital punishment on Malacandra
(d) He doesn't believe in killing

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

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

4. What does Oyarsa say of the history of earth?

5. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens with the three dead hross?

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

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

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

8. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

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

10. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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