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

2. Orual identifies which turn of events as "the subtlety of the god who is against us"?
(a) Pysche's inability to heal the Fox and her responsibilty for others' deaths
(b) Redival's revenge and the citizens' support for her
(c) Psyche's
(d) Psyche's marriage to Tarin and eventual rebellion

3. 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.

4. What proof does Batta offer that the people have stopped worshiping Psyche?
(a) The people believe she spread the plague by touching them.
(b) The people believe she will smite them with thunder.
(c) The people believe she has starved them.
(d) The people are shocked to see her walk the streets alone.

5. What promise does Psyche extract from Orual?
(a) Orual will never think of Psyche again.
(b) Orual will not do anything drastic or outrageous.
(c) Orual will murder the King.
(d) Orual will avenge Psyche's murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King do when Orual offers to sacrifice herself in place of Psyche?

2. Istra's Greek name is

3. How might Redival have influenced the Priest's desire to sacrifice Psyche?

4. What has changed about the King since he beat Orual in chapter 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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