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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?
(a) Lions came and ate all the sheep.
(b) Plagues of locusts came.
(c) The river dried and the fish died.
(d) The cattle and bees died.

2. Psyche's refusal to leave the Mountain arises chiefly from what reason?
(a) She is angry at Orual.
(b) She is too proud to take orders from Orual anymore.
(c) She is mad and unable to make rational decisions.
(d) She must obey her husband, and stay in her new home?

3. Orual feels an urgency to escape the Mountain. Why?
(a) She regrets coming up the Mountain.
(b) Winter is coming and she finds the place fearful.
(c) Her sickness is beginning to return.
(d) She wants Psyche to return to the palace.

4. Who comes to the palace backed by an "army"?
(a) Ungit
(b) The Priest
(c) Batta
(d) The king

5. In Orual's stubbornness and pride, she says she learns what through her argument with Psyche?
(a) She learns that Psyche does not love her anymore.
(b) She learns that she has been wrong to disagree with Psyche.
(c) She learns that she does not have enough faith.
(d) She learns how one can hate those one loves.

6. Psyche serves Orual:
(a) Berries and milk
(b) Berries and water
(c) Bread and water
(d) Meat and wine

7. Where do Orual, Psyche, and the Fox spend most of their time?
(a) In the Temple of Ungit
(b) On the hill-top looking down on Glome
(c) On the Grey Mountain
(d) In Greece

8. As she regards the vision, Orual begins to believe what?
(a) Psyche is in terrible danger and Orual must cross the river to save her.
(b) She has wronged Psyche and must return and beg forgiveness.
(c) She has become mad as Psyche is.
(d) Psyche is merely being deceived.

9. What happens to Tarin?
(a) The king makes him a eunuch and sells him.
(b) The king forces him to marry Redival.
(c) The king forces him to marry Orual.
(d) The king murders him on the spot.

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

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

12. What emotion does Orual express most when discussing their father, the King?
(a) Trust
(b) Love
(c) Sorrow
(d) Anger

13. Orual believes Psyche's tale of her rescue is . . .
(a) a wish.
(b) a result of head injury.
(c) a lie.
(d) a dream.

14. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(b) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.
(c) People believe she carries the fever.
(d) She has become as ugly as Orual.

15. The Fox's decree that Justice, Equality, the Soul, musical note, things behind our backs, and things too far away to be seen suggests that he is ruled by . . .
(a) logic.
(b) fear.
(c) religious beliefs.
(d) superstition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name have the people begun to call Psyche?

2. Orual first believes Redival is the Accursed because. . .

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

4. What do the grateful citizens of Glome do for Psyche that concerns Orual?

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

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