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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. How many miles has Ransom traveled from London?

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

3. In Chapter 4, what color leaves does a fruit tree have?

4. What type of language do Random and archon of Mars speak?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ransom see when he gets up and looks around in Chapter 5?

2. What does Ransom wonder about mythology?

3. Why does Lewis struggle so when he walks to Ransom’s home?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the thunderstorm.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The eldila seem to be servants of Maleldil. In what way do the eldila serve Maleldil? Do the eldila have an appearance like Maledil? What is the job of the eldila? What does Ransom compare the eldila to? Why are they comparable to angels? Do they have a physical form? What characteristics do they possess? In what way do they rule their planets?

Essay Topic 2

Ransom and Weston have very different views of death. What are Weston’s views of death? What are Ransom’s? How have the men’s experiences colored the way they view death? How are the men’s views similar or different?

Essay Topic 3

The mood in the novel changes when Weston/Un-man comes on the scene. What would the mood of the novel be before Weston arrives? How does the mood change after Weston comes to Perelandra? At what points in the novel is the mood positive? Negative? Overall, is the mood of the novel more positive or negative?

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