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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 kind of food does Augray offer Ransom?
2. What does Weston think when the Oyarsa asks about the dead hross?
3. Why is Ransom confused as he climbs through the mountain pass?
4. What do the stone monuments show Ransom?
5. What is the first question Oyarsa asks Ransom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ransom feel about going with Hyoi on the hunt for the hnakra? What does he want to prove?
2. How does the Osarya repond to Weston's speech?
3. What does the hross have to say about war on Malacandra?
4. Describe a parallel between Ransom leaving to go to the mountains and the beginning of the book.
5. Besides collecting gold, what is Weston's motivation for coming to Malacandra?
6. What happens with the three dead hross?
7. What does the sorn and Ransom do when Ransom enters the cave?
8. What is the narrator's purpose in writing this story?
9. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.
10. Why have Weston and Devine brought Ransom to Malacandra?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Out of the Silent Planet is an allegory. It is supposed to represent the creation of earth, the fall of the angels from heaven and the fall of humans. Describe parts of the book that you believe correspond to these events.
Essay Topic 3
In this book Weston talks about humanity eventually traveling the stars and conquering other planets, because "humans" were the best people ever created. What would you think if you met intelligent beings who did not resemble "humans?" What do you think are characteristics that make humans something other than "animal?" Do you believe a creature other than a "human" could have those characteristics? Why or Why not?
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