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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. What does the King do when Orual offers to sacrifice herself in place of Psyche?
(a) He accepts.
(b) He shows her her own image in the mirror.
(c) He forces her out of the Pillar Room.
(d) He beats her again.

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

3. Why does Orual believe she cannot change her soul from an ugly one into a beautiful one?
(a) Psyche is preventing her from changing.
(b) No one in the palace will help her.
(c) The gods will not help her.
(d) She no longer has the help of Bardia and the Fox.

4. What name does Psyche call Orual that she learned from the Fox?
(a) Redival
(b) Maia
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Ungit

5. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?
(a) Bardia's and the King's.
(b) Bardia's and the Shadowbrute's.
(c) Bardia's and Psyche's.
(d) Bardia's and her own.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .

2. To prepare Orual for killing a man, Bardia insists that she. . .

3. Why does Psyche predict Orual will be able to return to her soon?

4. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?

5. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?

(see the answer key)

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