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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a reason why the narrator does not fear the gods will punish her for writing her book?
(a) She has no loved ones left whom the gods can hurt.
(b) The Greeks' wise men will know whether her complaint is right or wrong.
(c) She is writing the book in Greek, which the gods will not understand.
(d) She is old and has already suffered terrors and plagues.

2. What surprises Orual when she first sees her Stepmother?
(a) She is beautiful and smiling.
(b) She is very cruel and very old.
(c) She is very small and very frightened.
(d) She is wearing a thick veil and many clothes.

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

4. Who comes to the palace backed by an "army"?
(a) Batta
(b) Ungit
(c) The king
(d) The Priest

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows

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

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

4. What does Bardia make Orual swear to before he lets her into Psyche's chamber?

5. What does Orual call the greatest shame of her life?

(see the answer key)

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