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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. Why does Psyche predict Orual will be able to return to her soon?
(a) Her husband will allow it.
(b) Orual's duties with the King are over.
(c) The King will not prevent her in the next few days.
(d) The gods have arranged it.

2. Who recognizes Orual's grief and offers her an outlet through training at swords?
(a) Tarin
(b) Bardia
(c) The King
(d) The Fox

3. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?
(a) His childish nature keeps him from understanding his situation.
(b) He was happier among the barbarians.
(c) His inquisitive mind keeps him cheerful.
(d) There were no great men in his own country.

4. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?
(a) She represses the thought that murder is wrong.
(b) She represses the thought that children must obey their parents.
(c) She represses the thought that Psyche may bear the child of a beast.
(d) She represses the thought that Psyche is happy and she should not meddle.

5. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"
(a) Anchises is a god and wants to love a mortal.
(b) The lions, lynxes, and bears followed her down the mountain.
(c) The goddess Ida would be terribly jealous of her.
(d) She is a goddess and wants to beguile a mortal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Psyche believe about the Grey Mountain, even as a child?

3. For what reason does Orual delay her trip to the Mountain to bury Psyche?

4. Orual denies the feeling of elation rising in her at the beauty of nature. Why?

5. 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. . .

(see the answer key)

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