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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. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?
(a) Bardia's and the King's.
(b) Bardia's and the Shadowbrute's.
(c) Bardia's and her own.
(d) Bardia's and Psyche's.

2. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?
(a) It is all a delusion.
(b) It may be there or may not be; it is neither black or white.
(c) Psyche's world is without color or happiness.
(d) The palace is evil and foreboding.

3. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?
(a) It simplifies her situation and allows her to concentrate on mortal things.
(b) It soothes the bruises from her fight with Psyche.
(c) It makes her feel safe from the lions and Mountain beasts.
(d) It reminds her that she has been right all along.

4. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?
(a) He is compassionate and allows her to go.
(b) He is angry and refuses to let her go.
(c) He is angry but sends her to them anyway.
(d) He is compassionate, but she refuses to go.

5. What happens to Tarin?
(a) The king murders him on the spot.
(b) The king makes him a eunuch and sells him.
(c) The king forces him to marry Redival.
(d) The king forces him to marry Orual.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orual grows angry at Psyche's attitude, Psyche responds by

2. What does Redival want in exchange for her secrecy about Psyche's worship by the people?

3. Why does Psyche believe men behave in an evil way?

4. What is ironic about Psyche's treatment of Orual when she sees Orual's bruises?

5. Bardia offers to accompany Orual up the Mountain. Why?

(see the answer key)

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