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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psyche's anger comes chiefly from the fact that. . .
(a) Orual has suggested her lover is a madman or outlaw.
(b) Orual has used Psyche's love for her to manipulate the situation.
(c) Orual has told her the Fox and Bardia agree that her lover is not a god.
(d) Orual has harmed herself.

2. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?
(a) She believes Psyche is embarrassed and wants to apologize.
(b) She fears Psyche will never love her.
(c) She believes she can express her love by helping her wounded sister.
(d) She believes Psyche will never love her otherwise.

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. What does Psyche believe about the Grey Mountain, even as a child?
(a) Orual would build her a castle of gold and amber there.
(b) She will marry a king who builds her a castle there.
(c) The years lasted longer there.
(d) She will never go there or see what is on the other side.

5. What surprises Orual when she first sees her Stepmother?
(a) She is very cruel and very old.
(b) She is beautiful and smiling.
(c) She is wearing a thick veil and many clothes.
(d) She is very small and very frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orual realize about her complaint after she has delivered it to the gods?

2. Orual believes Psyche's tale of her rescue is . . .

3. As Orual considers the temple and its dwellers, she realizes what?

4. The gods cannot answer Orual's charge against them. Why?

5. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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