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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To what does the Fox attribute the fact that the dangers and plagues disappeared from Glome when Psyche was sacrificed?
(a) Ungit's satisfaction
(b) Changing of the wind
(c) Divine nature's forgiveness
(d) Chance

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

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

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

7. Why does Orual not recognize Psyche in the procession?
(a) Orual is not permitted to watch the procession.
(b) Psyche is not in the procession.
(c) Psyche is behind the Priest.
(d) Psyche is dressed up as a temple girl.

8. At the start of the chapter, Orual determines to. . .
(a) go with Psyche to the Mountain.
(b) beg the King to free Psyche.
(c) leave Glome for good.
(d) sacrifice herself to Ungit.

9. What does Bardia make Orual swear to before he lets her into Psyche's chamber?
(a) She will let two temple girls in.
(b) She will never try to fight him again.
(c) She will try to escape with Psyche.
(d) She will come out again when he knocks.

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

11. Trying to make Psyche see reason, Orual begins to. . .
(a) shake Psyche.
(b) scream for Bardia's help.
(c) drag Psyche off of the Mountain.
(d) slap Psyche's face.

12. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?
(a) Psyche's world is without color or happiness.
(b) The palace is evil and foreboding.
(c) It is all a delusion.
(d) It may be there or may not be; it is neither black or white.

13. What does Orual mean by the "reek of holiness" that has overtaken the palace?
(a) She means that she now believes in the truth of Ungit.
(b) She means that the sacrifice had already taken place.
(c) She means that Ungit's stone had been placed in her house.
(d) She means that the false and superstitious rituals of the sacrifice had begun.

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

15. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?
(a) Kissing a soldier
(b) Gossipping with Batta
(c) Stealing grain for the poor
(d) Running away

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual feels an urgency to escape the Mountain. Why?

2. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"

3. How does Orual attempt to overcome Bardia?

4. What proof does Batta offer that the people have stopped worshiping Psyche?

5. In what way are Redival and Batta alike?

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