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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thought is unexpectedly bothering Orual?
(a) She is bothered by the fear that the King will catch her.
(b) She is bothered by fear for her own safety.
(c) She is bothered by the Fox's refusal to go up the Mountain.
(d) She is bothered by thoughts of Bardia's wife.

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

3. What is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?
(a) She fears the people will attach her.
(b) She fears Ungit will have her revenge.
(c) She fears she will be left to starve or be eaten by animals.
(d) She fears the god of Grey Mountain will take her.

4. What does Orual call the greatest shame of her life?
(a) The king's suggestion that Orual be sacrificed.
(b) The king's relief when he hears someone else is to be sacrificed.
(c) The king's suggestion that Psyche be sacrificed.
(d) The king's insistence that he be sacrificed.

5. What does Redival want in exchange for her secrecy about Psyche's worship by the people?
(a) Her mother's necklace and a king for a husband
(b) To worship at the house of Ungit
(c) Freedom from the kingdom and Pysche's loyalty
(d) Her own home and to marry Tarin

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

7. What potential problem is rising between Redival and Psyche?
(a) Redival wants attention from Orual and the Fox.
(b) Redival wants to marry the King of Grey Mountain.
(c) Psyche has fallen in love with Redival's betrothed soldier.
(d) Psyche is much more beautiful than Redival.

8. The King does not believe Orual loves Psyche because. . .
(a) Orual and Psyche are only half-sisters.
(b) Redival is Psyche's daughter.
(c) Psyche is Redival's daughter.
(d) Psyche is Orual's step-daughter.

9. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?
(a) He is compassionate and allows her to go.
(b) He is angry but sends her to them anyway.
(c) He is compassionate, but she refuses to go.
(d) He is angry and refuses to let her go.

10. On their return home, Bardia expresses what opinion on the subject of Psyche's lover?
(a) He believes Psyche is mad and has no lover.
(b) He believes it hides out of fear of being caught by others.
(c) He believes it hides itself because it is ugly and fearful.
(d) He believes it is invisible.

11. 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 at war with the King of Caphad.
(c) He is to marry the third daughter of the King of Caphad.
(d) He is at war with the King of Phars.

12. What promise does Psyche extract from Orual?
(a) Orual will never think of Psyche again.
(b) Orual will murder the King.
(c) Orual will avenge Psyche's murder.
(d) Orual will not do anything drastic or outrageous.

13. Why is Redival crying over the sacrifice of Psyche?
(a) She fears they will sacrifice her too.
(b) She is afraid Orual will hang her by her thumbs.
(c) She is afraid for Psyche.
(d) She is afraid of Ungit.

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

15. When Orual grows angry at Psyche's attitude, Psyche responds by
(a) insisting that Orual leave until she reconsiders her position.
(b) growing angry in response.
(c) continuing to explain her own excitement and longing.
(d) refusing to hear anything more from Orual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is King Trom most concerned with in this chapter?

2. When Bardia suggests they sleep back to back to ward off the cold, Orual. . .

3. What thoughts has Orual repeated about the gods throughout the story?

4. When Psyche expresses fear, Orual feels relief because. . .

5. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows

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