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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the first time, Orual feels what emotion behind her veil?
(a) Power
(b) Fear
(c) Guilt
(d) Love

2. The god "changes the past" by suggesting what?
(a) Orual must rewrite her complaint against the gods.
(b) Orual has come to the Mountain to be sacrificed.
(c) Orual has killed Psyche.
(d) Orual always knew he was real but chose to deny it.

3. Bardia offers to accompany Orual up the Mountain. Why?
(a) He wants to assure her safety and help her in an honorable task.
(b) Orual has threatened to turn him over to the King if he does not.
(c) The King has asked Bardia to watch over Orual.
(d) He wants to prevent her from burying Psyche.

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

5. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?
(a) She nurses him back to health and catches the fever.
(b) She takes his place as King's advisor.
(c) She begins to rule the kingdom in place of her ill father.
(d) She becomes the healer to the citizens of Glome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the Fox been allowed such freedom with the King's daughters?

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

3. In Orual's stubbornness and pride, she says she learns what through her argument with Psyche?

4. What does the Priest say is hateful to Ungit?

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

(see the answer key)

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