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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator leave the railway station?
(a) Trowbridge.
(b) Worchester.
(c) Bath.
(d) Banbury.

2. What is the prevailing color of the atmosphere as Random approached the surface of Venus?
(a) Blueish.
(b) Redish.
(c) Golden or coppery.
(d) Silvery or shiny.

3. How does Ransom spend his time at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Exploring the island.
(b) Eating.
(c) Talking with the Green Lady.
(d) Sleeping.

4. How far does the narrator walk from the train station to Ransom’s cottage?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 3 miles.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 1/4 mile.

5. When Ransom and the Green Lady land in a bay, what color rocks are on the low cliffs and outcroppings?
(a) Pink.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

6. What sound breaks into Ransom’s dreams in Chapter 5?
(a) A bird.
(b) The dragon.
(c) The Green Lady singing.
(d) The sound of the sea.

7. What language is Weston able to speak when he arrives on Perelandra?
(a) Malacandrian.
(b) Old Solar.
(c) Perelandrian.
(d) Terran.

8. In Chapter 4, what is on the back of a dolphin-type fish?
(a) A package.
(b) A human being.
(c) A growth.
(d) A harness.

9. When Ransom awakes at the beginning of Chapter 8, where does he think he is?
(a) Morning star.
(b) Mars.
(c) Venus.
(d) Earth.

10. Where is Ransom going to be traveling?
(a) Paraguay.
(b) Perelandra.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Prinscambia.

11. In Chapter 4, what color leaves does a fruit tree have?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Silver.
(d) Green.

12. How many miles has Ransom traveled from London?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 250 miles.
(c) 40 million.
(d) 1 million.

13. What color is the coffin-like object?
(a) Blue.
(b) Gray.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

14. In the wood, what color fruit hang like toy balloons?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

15. How many immense piers or rock rise upwards as Ransom and the Lady stop for a moment during their climb?
(a) 10.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is thunder described?

2. What color flowers cover the oval plateau where the immense piers of rock are?

3. During a Perelandran night, how far might someone be able to see?

4. About how fast do the Green Lady and Ransom travel when riding the silver fish?

5. Who was Ransom’s chief captor when he was kidnapped and taken to Mars?

(see the answer keys)

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