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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why will the King not hear the Fox's solutions?
(a) He wants to dishonor Psyche.
(b) He wants to save Psyche on his own.
(c) He wants to save himself and his crown.
(d) He does not trust the Fox.

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

3. Orual feels an urgency to escape the Mountain. Why?
(a) She wants Psyche to return to the palace.
(b) She regrets coming up the Mountain.
(c) Her sickness is beginning to return.
(d) Winter is coming and she finds the place fearful.

4. Psyche's refusal to leave the Mountain arises chiefly from what reason?
(a) She is too proud to take orders from Orual anymore.
(b) She is angry at Orual.
(c) She is mad and unable to make rational decisions.
(d) She must obey her husband, and stay in her new home?

5. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows
(a) A war
(b) A plague of birds
(c) A death
(d) A battle with the king

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Orual first understand that she is ugly?

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

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

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

5. The fact that Orual does not see the beauty in the journey the second time suggests what?

(see the answer key)

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