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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 is jealous of Orual and wants Ungit to let her rule Glome.
(b) She is jealous of Psyche and wants Ungit to take revenge.
(c) She wants to protect Psyche from Ungit.
(d) She wants to call down Ungit's wrath on all of Glome.

2. What prevents Orual from following Psyche up the Mountain?
(a) The temple girls prevent her from going.
(b) She is too angry at Psyche to follow.
(c) The King has locked her in the tower.
(d) She is too weak from her beatings to follow.

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

4. What does Orual call the greatest shame of her life?
(a) The king's suggestion that Orual be sacrificed.
(b) The king's suggestion that Psyche be sacrificed.
(c) The king's relief when he hears someone else is to be sacrificed.
(d) The king's insistence that he be sacrificed.

5. Orual believes you can escape thoughts of the gods or faith by. . .
(a) working hard, avoiding music or pleasure, and loving no one.
(b) loving only those who love you in return.
(c) seeking revenge on those that have wronged you.
(d) constantly looking up at the sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psyche believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because. . .

2. In what way are Redival and Batta alike?

3. Why does Orual feel "as if a soft, cold hand had been laid" on her left side when the Fox calls Psyche "prettier than Aphrodite herself"?

4. Why does the mob return to the palace a second time?

5. To what does the Fox attribute the fact that the dangers and plagues disappeared from Glome when Psyche was sacrificed?

(see the answer key)

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