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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. What does Orual call the greatest shame of her life?
(a) The king's insistence that he be sacrificed.
(b) The king's suggestion that Orual be sacrificed.
(c) The king's suggestion that Psyche be sacrificed.
(d) The king's relief when he hears someone else is to be sacrificed.

2. When Psyche is sick with fever she speaks mostly of what?
(a) Her father's castle in Glome
(b) Her travels on the Grey Mountain
(c) Her castle of gold and amber on the Grey Mountain
(d) Her desire to leave Glome

3. Psyche believes the gods may not truly be cruel because. . .
(a) humans are cruel themselves.
(b) humans cause the gods to act cruelly.
(c) humans are both good and evil.
(d) humans cannot understand what gods do.

4. When Psyche expresses fear, Orual feels relief because. . .
(a) she does not want to be alone in her fear.
(b) she believes Psyche is insane.
(c) she has come to comfort Psyche.
(d) she has come to make Psyche afraid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Fox is told to tutor the girls for which of the following reasons?

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

3. What emotion does Orual express most when discussing their father, the King?

4. What name does Psyche call Orual that she learned from the Fox?

5. Before the birth of King Trom's third child, the atmosphere of the castle is. . .

(see the answer key)

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