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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Priest say is hateful to Ungit?
(a) Famine
(b) Barrenness of sons
(c) Pestilence
(d) War

2. When does Orual first understand that she is ugly?
(a) When the King tells her Redival is prettier.
(b) When the priest insists she wear his bird mask.
(c) When the King implies that her face will frighten his new bride.
(d) When the priest insists she wear a veil in front of him.

3. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?
(a) The cattle and bees died.
(b) Plagues of locusts came.
(c) The river dried and the fish died.
(d) Lions came and ate all the sheep.

4. What happens to Tarin?
(a) The king murders him on the spot.
(b) The king makes him a eunuch and sells him.
(c) The king forces him to marry Orual.
(d) The king forces him to marry Redival.

5. The Fox is told to tutor the girls for which of the following reasons?
(a) He is to practice tutoring the girls until the king has a son.
(b) He is to teach the girls about foreign lands.
(c) He is to teach Redival to be wise since she will never be beautiful.
(d) He is to repay a debt to the king.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orual learn not to fear her Stepmother?

2. What proof does Batta offer that the people have stopped worshiping Psyche?

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

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

5. What surprises Orual when she first sees her Stepmother?

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