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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orual believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because . . .
(a) he is angry at the gods.
(b) he only believes in Greek gods.
(c) he did not have the whole truth.
(d) he thought too well of the world.

2. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) People believe she carries the fever.
(b) She has become as ugly as Orual.
(c) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.
(d) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.

3. What promise does Psyche extract from Orual?
(a) Orual will never think of Psyche again.
(b) Orual will avenge Psyche's murder.
(c) Orual will not do anything drastic or outrageous.
(d) Orual will murder the King.

4. What were the "knocks of the hammer" that destroyed Orual's happiness with the Fox and Psyche?
(a) The priest's cursing of the family and the Fox's death
(b) Lack of an army and Psyche's desertion of the family
(c) Bad harvests, strangers' worship of Psyche, and rebellion
(d) Bad marriages, starvation, and traitorous soldiers

5. Orual accuses Psyche of becoming cruel like the gods because. . .
(a) Psyche claims Orual should go
(b) Psyche will not bring Orual to her true
(c) Psyche longs to go to the mountain, her
(d) Psyche claims she never loved Orual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual denies the feeling of elation rising in her at the beauty of nature. Why?

2. Psyche believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because. . .

3. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?

4. When Psyche is sick with fever she speaks mostly of what?

5. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?

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