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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. Orual believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because . . .
(a) he is angry at the gods.
(b) he thought too well of the world.
(c) he did not have the whole truth.
(d) he only believes in Greek gods.

2. What is ironic about Psyche's treatment of Orual when she sees Orual's bruises?
(a) She insists that Orual take her place in the sacrifice.
(b) She does not want Orual to visit her.
(c) She is as cruel as the King.
(d) She begins to comfort Orual as though Orual were the victim.

3. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?
(a) He is angry but sends her to them anyway.
(b) He is compassionate, but she refuses to go.
(c) He is compassionate and allows her to go.
(d) He is angry and refuses to let her go.

4. Psyche believes the gods may not truly be cruel because. . .
(a) humans cause the gods to act cruelly.
(b) humans are cruel themselves.
(c) humans cannot understand what gods do.
(d) humans are both good and evil.

5. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.
(b) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(c) She has become as ugly as Orual.
(d) People believe she carries the fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual identifies which turn of events as "the subtlety of the god who is against us"?

2. What caused the King's position to weaken even further?

3. Who recognizes Orual's grief and offers her an outlet through training at swords?

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

5. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?

(see the answer key)

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