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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. How does Ransom feel after he helps kill the hnakra?

3. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?

4. What feeling is Ransom fighting as he leaves Hyoi's boat?

5. What does Hyoi tell Ransom about the eldil?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Ransom's first view of Meldilorn.

6. What happens with the three dead hross?

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

8. What does Ransom tell the sorn about earth and what do the sorn think?

9. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

10. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On Malacandra, the hross, Hyoi, says he can't think of any reason for the three peoples of Malacondra to wage war. What might be reasons that war starts in this world? What circumstances and ideas on Malacandra seem to preclude war as an option there? What do you think might be necessary for war to end on this world, given what Malacandra was described as being like?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing Weston's plans for conquering other planets and killing off their population, to make room for humans, and what has happen on this planet as people cleared out the earth of many animals to make use of the land for ourselves. Are they similar? Do the animals deserve more, less or the same consideration as inhabitants of another planet? Is this planet enriched or impoverished because of the number of extinct animals?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay comparing Weston's ideas of conquering other planets with America's treatment of the American Indian. How are they similar? Different? Would you consider one to be more immoral than the other?

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