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

2. How fast does Random rush to what seems to be a valley on Venus?
(a) 10 mph.
(b) 5 mph.
(c) Around 25 mph.
(d) About 30 mph.

3. About how fast do the Green Lady and Ransom travel when riding the silver fish?
(a) About 5 mph.
(b) About 6 mph.
(c) About 3 mph.
(d) About 10 mph.

4. What type of people did Ransom love on Malacandra?
(a) Furry-people.
(b) Smooth-skinned people.
(c) Tree-people.
(d) Flower-people.

5. How does Ransom know he is in the same valley where Weston became ill?
(a) He sees Weston sleeping.
(b) He recognizes a grove of trees.
(c) He finds some of Weston’s belongings.
(d) He sees the spot where Weston laid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator leave the railway station?

2. When Ransom and the Green Lady land in a bay, what color rocks are on the low cliffs and outcroppings?

3. What color skirt of tubes and strings and bladders are a fringe of what appears to be vegetable matter?

4. What does the narrator pass on his way to Ransom’s cottage?

5. What creatures are with Ransom when he wakes after his conversation with the Lady?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the object he sees in Ransom’s house?

3. What are bubble-trees?

4. How will Ransom get to Perelandra?

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

6. Describe the thunderstorm.

7. Why are there different creatures in the ancient worlds?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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