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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is thunder described?

4. How many other people does the Green Lady know?

5. What does Ransom do with Weston’s revolver?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6 after the Lady is out of sight, what does Ransom have the urge to do?

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

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

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

5. What does Ransom find to eat in Chapter 8?

6. What are bubble-trees?

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

8. Why does Ransom believe he is being sent to Perelandra?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ransom considers Weston to be egotistical. What behaviors does Weston exhibit that demonstrate ego? How does Weston carry himself? What does Weston think of other people/creatures? Why does it seem that Weston has an enlarge ego?

Essay Topic 2

When the Green Lady meets Ransom face to face, she comments that she is older. What does the Green Lady mean when she tells Ransom that she is older? Does she look older? Does she seem more mature? Does the Green Lady see any relationship between getting older and maturity?

Essay Topic 3

As Ransom prepares to leave, Lewis finds himself realizing how much he will miss Ransom. How does the talk the two men have make Lewis feel? What does Lewis begin to notice about Ransom as they talk? As the time draws nearer, how does Lewis realize he will feel when Ransom is gone?

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