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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 long does Ransom ride one of the silver fish in Chapter 8 before night falls?
(a) 90 minutes.
(b) 180 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) More than an hour.

2. What color flowers cover Ransom when he returns at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Purple.

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

4. What is the woman made of that Ransom sees in Chapter 4?
(a) Stone.
(b) Copper.
(c) Flesh.
(d) Iron.

5. During the night that Ransom rides the silver fish, what color luminosity can he see in the sea?
(a) Gold.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Silvery-white.
(d) Blue-green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Green Lady say when Ransom asks if he can swim over?

2. How many times does it take Ransom to be able to stand on a ridge and wave at a person on another island?

3. What time of day does the narrator head for Ransom’s cottage?

4. How tall are the silver flowers in the field Ransom goes into as the creatures take him to their mistress?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ransom and the Green Lady get to the Fixed Land?

2. What does Ransom wonder about mythology?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the Green Lady know about other worlds?

9. How does Ransom make friends with the dragon?

10. Why isn’t Ransom home to greet the narrator?

(see the answer keys)

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