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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?
(a) She represses the thought that Psyche is happy and she should not meddle.
(b) She represses the thought that murder is wrong.
(c) She represses the thought that children must obey their parents.
(d) She represses the thought that Psyche may bear the child of a beast.

2. In the old priest's story of Psyche, the goddess is finally. . .
(a) cast off the earth by the god's mother.
(b) reunited with her sisters when she forgives them.
(c) reunited with her god when his mother releases her.
(d) veiled in Spring and Summer.

3. Why does Psyche believe men behave in an evil way?
(a) They are to be pitied.
(b) They are basically good, but choose to do bad for fun.
(c) They do not know what is good from what is bad.
(d) They are all evil at heart.

4. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?
(a) Bardia's and the Shadowbrute's.
(b) Bardia's and the King's.
(c) Bardia's and her own.
(d) Bardia's and Psyche's.

5. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?
(a) It reminds her that she has been right all along.
(b) It soothes the bruises from her fight with Psyche.
(c) It simplifies her situation and allows her to concentrate on mortal things.
(d) It makes her feel safe from the lions and Mountain beasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .

2. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?

3. Orual believes that she has proven what?

4. Bardia offers to accompany Orual up the Mountain. Why?

5. What potential problem is rising between Redival and Psyche?

(see the answer key)

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