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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 is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?
(a) He is angry but sends her to them anyway.
(b) He is compassionate, but she refuses to go.
(c) He is angry and refuses to let her go.
(d) He is compassionate and allows her to go.

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

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

4. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"
(a) The goddess Ida would be terribly jealous of her.
(b) She is a goddess and wants to beguile a mortal.
(c) Anchises is a god and wants to love a mortal.
(d) The lions, lynxes, and bears followed her down the mountain.

5. Before the King can banish the Fox to the mines, what event intercedes?
(a) The Fox poisons himself.
(b) Messenger from Caphad declares war.
(c) Orual and the Fox run away.
(d) Messengers from Phars arrive to meet with the King.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?

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

4. The citizens of Glome believe in which gods?

5. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?

(see the answer key)

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