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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. How old was Weston when he began to pay attention to biology?
(a) 40s.
(b) 30s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 60s.

2. What does the Green Lady call Ransom?
(a) Striped one.
(b) White one.
(c) Red one.
(d) Piebald.

3. What does the narrator pass on his way to Ransom’s cottage?
(a) Abandoned church.
(b) School.
(c) Daily farm.
(d) Dead factory.

4. How does the Green Lady call the large silver fish?
(a) She whistles.
(b) She sings a few notes.
(c) 3 low calls on one note.
(d) She rings a bell.

5. What does Ransom do with Weston’s revolver?
(a) Shoots it.
(b) Take a stone and damages it.
(c) Throws it into the sea.
(d) Buries it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles has Ransom traveled from London?

2. About what size are the creatures the Green Lady named Ransom after?

3. What type of people did Ransom love on Malacandra?

4. How many acres is the plateau where the immense piers of rock rest?

5. As Random is moved about in the ocean, what color clouds come between him and the sky?

Short Essay Questions

1. Just before twilight, what does Ransom see?

2. Why doesn’t the narrator have anything to carry as he walks to Ransom’s cottage?

3. What are some of the creatures that Ransom sees when he rides a sliver fish in Chapter 8?

4. What are the rules about the fixed land on Perelandra?

5. How will Ransom get to Perelandra?

6. How does Ransom make friends with the dragon?

7. What is the narrator thinking as he walks to Ransom’s cottage?

8. Why doesn’t Ransom eat two of the yellow fruits?

9. How does Ransom describe the sea when he first is aware of it?

10. What supplies has Weston brought?

(see the answer keys)

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