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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. What emotion does Orual express most when discussing their father, the King?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Anger
(c) Love
(d) Trust

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

3. Orual identifies which turn of events as "the subtlety of the god who is against us"?
(a) Psyche's
(b) Redival's revenge and the citizens' support for her
(c) Pysche's inability to heal the Fox and her responsibilty for others' deaths
(d) Psyche's marriage to Tarin and eventual rebellion

4. Orual denies the feeling of elation rising in her at the beauty of nature. Why?
(a) Bardia warns her against the feeling.
(b) She feels indulging it would be like laughing on the way to Psyche's funeral.
(c) She understands it is a deception of her senses.
(d) She feels feverish and unsure of her perceptions.

5. When Orual grows angry at Psyche's attitude, Psyche responds by
(a) growing angry in response.
(b) refusing to hear anything more from Orual.
(c) insisting that Orual leave until she reconsiders her position.
(d) continuing to explain her own excitement and longing.

Short Answer Questions

1. As she regards the vision, Orual begins to believe what?

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

3. Orual describes Bardia's statement that "If a man was blind and she weren't the King's daughter, she'd make him a good wife," as. . .

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

5. For what reason does Orual delay her trip to the Mountain to bury Psyche?

(see the answer key)

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