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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. After the battle, Orual is angry that Bardia says "The day's work is over" because it implies what?
(a) He only wants to be with his wife.
(b) He believes she did not act like a lady.
(c) She is working him too hard.
(d) Bardia's time with her is only duty to him.

2. Psyche's biggest fear for the King at the end of the chapter is. . .
(a) that he should find she has been acting as Queen.
(b) that he should prevent her from fighting.
(c) that he should die and leave her alone.
(d) that he should live.

3. The story the old priest relays implies that
(a) Orual knew that Psyche's husband was a god, but destroyed her happiness out of jealousy.
(b) The sisters had no clear signs from the gods.
(c) Orual could not guess the answer to the gods' riddle and so was destroyed.
(d) Psyche was jealous of her sisters.

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

5. What is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?
(a) She fears the god of Grey Mountain will take her.
(b) She fears Ungit will have her revenge.
(c) She fears she will be left to starve or be eaten by animals.
(d) She fears the people will attach her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orual believes you can escape thoughts of the gods or faith by. . .

3. When Orual says "I did and I did and I did and what does it matter what I did," what is she implying?

4. After the birth of his daughter, the King threatens to. . .

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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