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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. The Fox is told to tutor the girls for which of the following reasons?
(a) He is to teach Redival to be wise since she will never be beautiful.
(b) He is to repay a debt to the king.
(c) He is to teach the girls about foreign lands.
(d) He is to practice tutoring the girls until the king has a son.

2. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?
(a) She wants to protect Psyche from Ungit.
(b) She is jealous of Psyche and wants Ungit to take revenge.
(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.

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

4. 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) The years lasted longer there.
(c) She will never go there or see what is on the other side.
(d) Orual would build her a castle of gold and amber there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?

2. Why will the King not hear the Fox's solutions?

3. Why is Redival crying over the sacrifice of Psyche?

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

5. Why does the mob return to the palace a second time?

(see the answer key)

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