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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orual expresses amazement that the people of Glome
(a) No longer beleive in the
(b) Seem depressed and aggitated on the Year's Birth.
(c) Do not recognize her unveiled.
(d) Rejoice at the

2. What is Orual's plan to avoid war with Phars and still defeat Argan?
(a) She will challenge him herself to a single fight.
(b) She will send her armies to challenge Argan.
(c) She will use Trunia as bait for Argan, then kill them both.
(d) She will gather an army and storm Phars.

3. When Orual says "I did and I did and I did and what does it matter what I did," what is she implying?
(a) Her works as Queen never amounted to anything.
(b) Her works as Queen would be undone by the next King.
(c) Her works as Queen made her feel insignificant.
(d) Her works as Queen could not undo her sin against Psyche.

4. The gods cannot answer Orual's charge against them. Why?
(a) They have no answer.
(b) The answer is already before her.
(c) The gods refuse to acknowledge her.
(d) Humans cannot understand the answer.

5. What, according to the Fox, is the whole art and joy of words?
(a) To say what the philosophers have taught us to say
(b) To say what others need to hear
(c) To say the very thing you really mean
(d) To make your thoughts beautiful to the gods

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual agrees to visit the natural hot spring because. . .

2. When Orual reunites with Psyche, she realizes that everything that was or will be existed. . .

3. Orual's successor as ruler of Glome will be:

4. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?

5. Who does Orual feel guilty for thinking of while she waits for Psyche to expose her god?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits Orual at the beginning of the chapter? What does he/she want?

2. How does Orual hope to use Trunia and Redival to bring peace to Glome and Phars?

3. Describe the last days of the Fox.

4. How does Bardia hurt Orual's feelings?

5. What does Orual realize about the inability of humans to communicate with the gods?

6. How does Orual's battle with ugliness come to an end?

7. What are Orual's strengths as a queen?

8. What is Orual's plan to defeat Argan and rescue Phars?

9. What conflict comes between Orual and the Fox?

10. What does Ansit confess to Orual regarding Bardia?

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