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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Orual when she first sees her Stepmother?
(a) She is very cruel and very old.
(b) She is beautiful and smiling.
(c) She is wearing a thick veil and many clothes.
(d) She is very small and very frightened.

2. What is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?
(a) She fears the god of Grey Mountain will take her.
(b) She fears she will be left to starve or be eaten by animals.
(c) She fears Ungit will have her revenge.
(d) She fears the people will attach her.

3. The citizens of Glome believe in which gods?
(a) Ungit and Anchises
(b) Ungit and Aphrodite
(c) Ungit and the river god Shennit
(d) Ungit and the god of the Grey Mountain

4. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?
(a) She becomes the healer to the citizens of Glome.
(b) She nurses him back to health and catches the fever.
(c) She takes his place as King's advisor.
(d) She begins to rule the kingdom in place of her ill father.

5. What frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?
(a) The mating rituals he performed at the wedding
(b) The slaughtering of sacrificial beasts he performed
(c) The holiness of his temple-smell
(d) The fearful masks he wore in the temple

Short Answer Questions

1. After the birth of his daughter, the King threatens to. . .

2. How does Orual attempt to overcome Bardia?

3. Orual believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because . . .

4. Before the King can banish the Fox to the mines, what event intercedes?

5. What proof does Batta offer that the people have stopped worshiping Psyche?

(see the answer key)

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