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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 itself because it is ugly and fearful.
(c) He believes it is invisible.
(d) He believes it hides out of fear of being caught by others.

2. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?
(a) It simplifies her situation and allows her to concentrate on mortal things.
(b) It reminds her that she has been right all along.
(c) It makes her feel safe from the lions and Mountain beasts.
(d) It soothes the bruises from her fight with Psyche.

3. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"
(a) The goddess Ida would be terribly jealous of her.
(b) She is a goddess and wants to beguile a mortal.
(c) The lions, lynxes, and bears followed her down the mountain.
(d) Anchises is a god and wants to love a mortal.

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

5. When does Orual first understand that she is ugly?
(a) When the King implies that her face will frighten his new bride.
(b) When the priest insists she wear a veil in front of him.
(c) When the priest insists she wear his bird mask.
(d) When the King tells her Redival is prettier.

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

7. What does the Priest say is hateful to Ungit?
(a) War
(b) Pestilence
(c) Barrenness of sons
(d) Famine

8. Why does Orual learn not to fear her Stepmother?
(a) Her Stepmother is homesick but loving.
(b) Her Stepmother gives birth to a long-awaited prince.
(c) Her Stepmother is always with Redival.
(d) Her Stepmother is pregant.

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

10. 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 insistence that he be sacrificed.
(d) The king's suggestion that Psyche be sacrificed.

11. What proof does Batta offer that the people have stopped worshiping Psyche?
(a) The people believe she has starved them.
(b) The people believe she will smite them with thunder.
(c) The people believe she spread the plague by touching them.
(d) The people are shocked to see her walk the streets alone.

12. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?
(a) His childish nature keeps him from understanding his situation.
(b) He was happier among the barbarians.
(c) His inquisitive mind keeps him cheerful.
(d) There were no great men in his own country.

13. Psyche believes the gods may not truly be cruel because. . .
(a) humans are both good and evil.
(b) humans cause the gods to act cruelly.
(c) humans cannot understand what gods do.
(d) humans are cruel themselves.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise does Psyche extract from Orual?

2. Why does Orual feel "as if a soft, cold hand had been laid" on her left side when the Fox calls Psyche "prettier than Aphrodite herself"?

3. When Psyche suggests her god might be able to make Orual see and understand her situation, how does Orual respond?

4. What happens to Tarin?

5. Why does the mob return to the palace a second time?

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