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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?

2. What does the Oyarsa asks Ransom?

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

4. Why is Ransom confused as he climbs through the mountain pass?

5. What does the Osarya offer Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ransom do on the space ship during the return trip to earth?

5. Describe Ransom's first view of Meldilorn.

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

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

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

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

10. What happens with the three dead hross?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this book the eldil communicate mind to mind, which on this earth is called telepathy. A number of psychic powers have been named on this planet. Telepathy, the ability to communicate mind to mind; Clairvoyance - the power or faculty of discerning objects not present to the senses; Precognition - clairvoyance relating to an event or state not yet experienced; Mediumship - the ability to communicate with the dead. These are a few of the so called psychic abilities.

Write an essay about how you feel about psychic phenomena. Do you believe it's possible? Why or Why not? Have you ever experienced it? If so, in what way?

Essay Topic 2

Write about your overall reaction to this book. Did you like it? Why or why not? Was it exciting? Boring? Was it believable? Were you able to put yourself on the planet and feel you knew what it looked like? Felt like? Did you like or dislike the characters? Did you agree with them? What did you see the story as representing?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the mating habits of the hross with human ones. Which do you think is better? Discuss why something that is precious, such as gold, is precious due to its scarcity. What would this have to do with the hross's mating patterns?

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