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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?
(a) She wants to protect Psyche from Ungit.
(b) She is jealous of Psyche and wants Ungit to take revenge.
(c) She wants to call down Ungit's wrath on all of Glome.
(d) She is jealous of Orual and wants Ungit to let her rule Glome.

2. Why has the Fox been allowed such freedom with the King's daughters?
(a) He has become a trusted advisor to the King.
(b) He has become an advisor to the Priest of Ungit.
(c) He has become a potential husband for Psyche.
(d) He has become a trusted advisor to Orual.

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

4. Who comes to the palace backed by an "army"?
(a) The king
(b) Ungit
(c) The Priest
(d) Batta

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orual describes Psyche's youth as her own "best times" for which reason?

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

4. What were the "knocks of the hammer" that destroyed Orual's happiness with the Fox and Psyche?

5. Orual believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because . . .

(see the answer key)

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