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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 is the coffin-like object for?
2. What language did Ransom learn in Malacandra?
3. In Chapter 4, what color are the dragon’s wings?
4. Who does Ransom hear speaking when he awakes at the end of Chapter 8?
5. What word does the narrator use to describe the emotion he is feeling as he walks toward Ransom’s cottage?
Short Essay Questions
1. What type of bird wakes Ransom in Chapter 5?
2. What are the rules about the fixed land on Perelandra?
3. What does Ransom see when he wakes in Chapter 4?
4. Why does Ransom believe he is being sent to Perelandra?
5. How does Ransom make friends with the dragon?
6. Why doesn’t Ransom leave the fixed land with the Lady?
7. Why doesn’t the narrator have anything to carry as he walks to Ransom’s cottage?
8. Why is the narrator going to see his friend Ransom?
9. Why doesn’t Ransom eat two of the yellow fruits?
10. What are some of the creatures that Ransom sees when he rides a sliver fish in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 7, Weston and Ransom have a philosophical argument. What are the beliefs of each man? How does Weston denigrate Ransom’s beliefs? How does Ransom counter Weston’s attacks on his beliefs? Are the men’s beliefs similar?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The things that Ransom sees and experiences seem to be indescribable. Why can’t words describe what Ransom sees or experiences? How different is Earth from Venus? Is there any part of Venus that is like Earth? How do those differences make it difficult to describe Venus?
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