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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Psyche may bear the child of a beast.
(c) She represses the thought that children must obey their parents.
(d) She represses the thought that Psyche is happy and she should not meddle.

2. What is the thing Psyche felt most ashamed of during her first visit to the palace?
(a) She was ashamed of leaving her family behind.
(b) She was ashamed of seeing a god.
(c) She was ashamed of surviving the sacrifice.
(d) She was ashamed of being mortal.

3. Why does the mob return to the palace a second time?
(a) They are starving.
(b) They want the king to have a son.
(c) They want to curse the king.
(d) They believe Psyche caused the fever.

4. Why does the palace fade before Orual's eyes?
(a) She calls out for Psyche to leave the palace.
(b) She is afraid of the vision, so it disappears.
(c) She calls out for Bardia, and the vision disappears
(d) She begins to doubt she sees it, and it disappears.

5. What news does the King deliver to his daughters and the Fox while they are studying?
(a) He is to marry the third daughter of the King of Phars.
(b) He is to marry the third daughter of the King of Caphad.
(c) He is at war with the King of Caphad.
(d) He is at war with the King of Phars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recognizes Orual's grief and offers her an outlet through training at swords?

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

3. When Orual says "I did and I did and I did and what does it matter what I did," what is she implying?

4. Orual "punishes" the Fox for what "sin?"

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

(see the answer key)

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