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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. Complete this sentence from Chapter 3. "This increased, nay doubled my misery: I was not even to be allowed _______."
(a) To live in jail.
(b) To laugh at my own misfortune.
(c) To say goodbye to Photis.
(d) To die in one piece.

2. In Chapter 4, what does Photis say she gathers in order to appease Pampile?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Furs.
(c) Sheepskin.
(d) Goat hair.

3. How does Thrasyleon die?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) People are afraid of him and kill him.
(c) He falls off a cliff.
(d) He is killed by the old woman.

4. What plant does Lucius find which is poisonous, but which he still considers eating?
(a) Rose Laurels.
(b) Rose Thorns.
(c) Rose peonies.
(d) Rose violets.

5. What does Photis confess to Lucius after the trial?
(a) She doesn't really love him.
(b) She knew the men he killed.
(c) She testified against him.
(d) She set him up.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his trial, what does Lucius find out about the dead bodies?

2. What is Lucius supposed to do with the item Photis gives him as she confesses to him?

3. With what woman does Socrates say he was living?

4. What is strange about Psyche's husband?

5. Where does Psyche wake up after she weeps on the mountain top?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of house does Byrrhaena's live in? What does Byrrhaena tell Lucius about Pamphile?

2. In Chapter 2, who does Lucius meet in the market when he goes to buy fish? What does this person do with his fish?

3. Who does Psyche's husband appeal to in order to be reunited with Psyche? What is the name of Psyche's child?

4. In Telyphron's story, what nationality is the man who speaks to the dead? Who is accused of killing the dead man?

5. Over dinner, what do the bandits talk about in their cave in Chapter 6? How many men did they lose in all?

6. During the night that Telyphron spends watching the dead man's corpse, what does he see? What is the condition of the corpse in the morning?

7. When Aristomenes sees Socrates, what does he say to him? Where does he take Socrates first?

8. In Chapter 3, what job does Telyphron tell Lucius about? Why did Telyphron have this job?

9. In Chapter 2, what does Lucius decide about Pamphile? Whom does he decide to focus his attention on?

10. While Lucius and Fotis watch, Pamphile turns herself into what? Why?

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