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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. Who takes over the telling of the story in Chapter 22?
(a) The narrator
(b) One of the eldil
(c) Weston
(d) The Osarya of Malacandra

2. 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 they are going to be punished for killing the hross
(d) He believes he's hallucinating

3. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?
(a) A judge who will punish him for Hyoi's death
(b) A sorn or a God
(c) A human
(d) A mixture of all three races on Malacandra

4. When no one pays attention to Weston's threats or intimidations, what does he do?
(a) Shoots the hross cloest to him
(b) Offers Devine as the guilty party
(c) Faints
(d) Pulls out a string of cheap beads, offering to trade

5. How does Weston defend himself?
(a) He tells Oyarsa that Earth civilization is superior to Malacandra's
(b) He claims the hross stole from him and threatened him
(c) He says he was provoked by the hross
(d) He says Ransom is a dangerous man and he was trying to capture him

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ransom and Augray spend the night?

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

3. Who, besides the three men does Ransom believe is on the ship?

4. What does Ransom find in the cavern he enters?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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 the hross have to say about war on Malacandra?

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

6. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

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

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

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

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

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