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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orual describes Bardia's statement that "If a man was blind and she weren't the King's daughter, she'd make him a good wife," as. . .
(a) a challenge to her honor.
(b) a proposal of marriage.
(c) the nearest thing to a love-speech ever made to her.
(d) the cruellest thing anyone had ever said about her.

2. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?
(a) The cattle and bees died.
(b) The river dried and the fish died.
(c) Lions came and ate all the sheep.
(d) Plagues of locusts came.

3. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows
(a) A death
(b) A battle with the king
(c) A war
(d) A plague of birds

4. When does Orual first understand that she is ugly?
(a) When the priest insists she wear his bird mask.
(b) When the King implies that her face will frighten his new bride.
(c) When the King tells her Redival is prettier.
(d) When the priest insists she wear a veil in front of him.

5. Why is the KIng not moved by the Fox's story of a Greek king who killed his daughter, and was then punished by the gods?
(a) He has no daughters.
(b) He thinks the Fox invented the story.
(c) He thinks he has no one to murder him as the Greek king was murdered.
(d) He thinks the gods would never punish a king.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the King's position to weaken even further?

2. Why does Orual feel "as if a soft, cold hand had been laid" on her left side when the Fox calls Psyche "prettier than Aphrodite herself"?

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

4. What prevents Orual from following Psyche up the Mountain?

5. When Orual sees her father through her Stepmother's eyes, she believes that his appearance will not. . .

(see the answer key)

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