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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 does Orual learn not to fear her Stepmother?
(a) Her Stepmother is homesick but loving.
(b) Her Stepmother gives birth to a long-awaited prince.
(c) Her Stepmother is pregant.
(d) Her Stepmother is always with Redival.

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

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

4. What caused the King's position to weaken even further?
(a) His starvation of the people.
(b) His slaves rose up against him.
(c) His slaughter of an enemy was excessive and cruel.
(d) His marriage to the King of Caphad's fourth daughter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What thoughts has Orual repeated about the gods throughout the story?

2. The Fox describes Psyche as which of the following?

3. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?

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

5. When Orual grows angry at Psyche's attitude, Psyche responds by

(see the answer key)

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