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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 happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?
(a) A large wave swamps the boat and they have to swim for shore
(b) Ransom gets seasick and loses his breakfast
(c) Hyoi falls out of the boat and is killed by the hnakra
(d) The hnakra attacks and they kill it

2. Why does Ransom feel relieved when he wakes in Augray's tower?
(a) Because he's not lost, wandering the mountains
(b) He has eaten and has slept
(c) He met a sorn, the source of much of his fear since landing on Malacandra, and was not afraid
(d) Because he hasn't seen or heard from Weston or Devine

3. What does the Oyarsa order when it's obvious Weston is not going to believe in his existence?
(a) He orders him to be put in chains
(b) He orders him to kneel
(c) He orders him off the island
(d) Oyarsa orders Weston to be taken away to have his head dunked in cold water

4. What was the prophecy Oyarsa alluded to with Ransom?
(a) it was about dramatic events taking place in the near future
(b) That Ransom and the narrator would change the future of earth
(c) That Ransom would travel to other planets
(d) That Ransom would become a famous professor

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a pfifltriggi carving on one of the stones?

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

3. What does the sorn look like?

4. What does Augray show Ransom in the observatory?

5. What does Ransom imagine Oyarsa to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

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

4. How does Ransom feel about going with Hyoi on the hunt for the hnakra? What does he want to prove?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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