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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 Psyche believe about the Grey Mountain, even as a child?
(a) She will never go there or see what is on the other side.
(b) The years lasted longer there.
(c) Orual would build her a castle of gold and amber there.
(d) She will marry a king who builds her a castle there.

2. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?
(a) His inquisitive mind keeps him cheerful.
(b) His childish nature keeps him from understanding his situation.
(c) There were no great men in his own country.
(d) He was happier among the barbarians.

3. 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 repay a debt to the king.
(c) He is to teach the girls about foreign lands.
(d) He is to teach Redival to be wise since she will never be beautiful.

4. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(b) People believe she carries the fever.
(c) She has become as ugly as Orual.
(d) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Redival want in exchange for her secrecy about Psyche's worship by the people?

3. Who comes to the palace backed by an "army"?

4. 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"?

5. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"

(see the answer key)

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