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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 far inland does Weston set up camp?
(a) About 500 yards.
(b) About 300 yards.
(c) About 400 yards.
(d) About 200 yards.

2. What color are the rock pillars that Ransom and the Lady climb?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

3. Where does Ransom find food on the Fixed Land?
(a) Upper slopes and wooded valleys.
(b) At the base of the cliffs.
(c) In a grove of trees.
(d) Near the beach.

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

5. As Random is moved about in the ocean, what color clouds come between him and the sky?
(a) Purple.
(b) Azure.
(c) Blue.
(d) Lavender.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many floating islands does Ransom count at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What color is the dragon’s tongue?

3. In Chapter 3, who argues against the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the human body?

4. How old was Weston when he began to pay attention to biology?

5. How long does Ransom ride one of the silver fish in Chapter 8 before night falls?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ransom make friends with the dragon?

2. Why is the narrator going to see his friend Ransom?

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

4. What does Ransom see when he wakes in Chapter 4?

5. What are bubble-trees?

6. What happens when Weston states that he calls the Force into himself completely?

7. In Chapter 8, why is it so important to Ransom that he find Weston?

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

9. Why doesn’t Ransom leave the fixed land with the Lady?

10. What does Ransom wonder about mythology?

(see the answer keys)

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