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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 frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?
(a) The holiness of his temple-smell
(b) The mating rituals he performed at the wedding
(c) The slaughtering of sacrificial beasts he performed
(d) The fearful masks he wore in the temple

2. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?
(a) She takes his place as King's advisor.
(b) She becomes the healer to the citizens of Glome.
(c) She nurses him back to health and catches the fever.
(d) She begins to rule the kingdom in place of her ill father.

3. What were the "knocks of the hammer" that destroyed Orual's happiness with the Fox and Psyche?
(a) Lack of an army and Psyche's desertion of the family
(b) Bad marriages, starvation, and traitorous soldiers
(c) Bad harvests, strangers' worship of Psyche, and rebellion
(d) The priest's cursing of the family and the Fox's death

4. The citizens of Glome believe in which gods?
(a) Ungit and the god of the Grey Mountain
(b) Ungit and Aphrodite
(c) Ungit and the river god Shennit
(d) Ungit and Anchises

5. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?
(a) She is jealous of Psyche and wants Ungit to take revenge.
(b) She wants to protect Psyche from Ungit.
(c) She wants to call down Ungit's wrath on all of Glome.
(d) She is jealous of Orual and wants Ungit to let her rule Glome.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Psyche is sick with fever she speaks mostly of what?

2. What news does the King deliver to his daughters and the Fox while they are studying?

3. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?

4. What do the grateful citizens of Glome do for Psyche that concerns Orual?

5. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?

(see the answer key)

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