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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wearing a thick veil and many clothes.
(d) She is very small and very frightened.

2. How does Orual attempt to overcome Bardia?
(a) She fights him with a sword.
(b) She brings slaves to help her.
(c) She begs him until he relents.
(d) She threatens to turn him over to the King.

3. What does Psyche say that unintentionally wounds Orual?
(a) Psyche tells Orual she is not faithful enough to understand the situation.
(b) Psyche tells Orual she looks just like their father.
(c) Psyche tells Orual she is too tired to discuss the situation.
(d) Psyche tells there is something bad coming toward them.

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

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

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

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

8. When Psyche expresses fear, Orual feels relief because. . .
(a) she has come to make Psyche afraid.
(b) she has come to comfort Psyche.
(c) she does not want to be alone in her fear.
(d) she believes Psyche is insane.

9. Who stands guard before Psyche's room?
(a) Ungit
(b) The Fox
(c) Bardia
(d) The Priest

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

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

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

13. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?
(a) She represses the thought that children must obey their parents.
(b) She represses the thought that Psyche is happy and she should not meddle.
(c) She represses the thought that Psyche may bear the child of a beast.
(d) She represses the thought that murder is wrong.

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

15. The citizens of Glome believe in which gods?
(a) Ungit and the river god Shennit
(b) Ungit and the god of the Grey Mountain
(c) Ungit and Anchises
(d) Ungit and Aphrodite

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a reason why the narrator does not fear the gods will punish her for writing her book?

3. What does the Priest say is hateful to Ungit?

4. At the start of the chapter, Orual determines to. . .

5. What potential problem is rising between Redival and Psyche?

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