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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) They pitch a tent in the forest
(c) Augray takes Ransom to the home of a sorn to stop for the night. It is some kind of school
(d) They spend the night on a boat

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

3. What reason does Augray give for not going to Oyarsa 's island with Ransom?
(a) Augray needs to head home
(b) The Oyarsa does not allow Augray on the island
(c) Augray and the hross manning the boat don't get along
(d) Oyarsa has not called for him

4. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?
(a) One of the pfifltriggi have returned with them
(b) One of the hross have returned with them
(c) Some eldil have returned with them
(d) One of the sorn have returned with them

5. What does the Osarya offer Ransom?
(a) All the gold he can put into one of the empty rooms on the ship
(b) The opportunity to stay on Malacandra
(c) Psychic ability similar to the eldil
(d) A new name

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ransom feel as Oyarsa approaches?

2. Where can the eldil go?

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

4. What does the sorn look like?

5. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

2. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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