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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) The cattle and bees died.
(b) Lions came and ate all the sheep.
(c) Plagues of locusts came.
(d) The river dried and the fish died.

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

3. Istra's Greek name is
(a) Helen
(b) Ungit
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Psyche

4. In what way are Redival and Batta alike?
(a) They are both selfish and ill-mannered.
(b) They are both concerned about others.
(c) They are both loyal servants of Ungit.
(d) They both worship Psyche.

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

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

7. Orual first believes Redival is the Accursed because. . .
(a) she behaves immorally.
(b) she caused the famine.
(c) she is worshiped as a goddess.
(d) she caused the fever.

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

9. For what reason does Orual delay her trip to the Mountain to bury Psyche?
(a) Her fear that Psyche is dead will be confirmed.
(b) She has no one to accompany her.
(c) Her life will be meaningless after the burial.
(d) She wants to wait for better weather.

10. Who recognizes Orual's grief and offers her an outlet through training at swords?
(a) Tarin
(b) The King
(c) Bardia
(d) The Fox

11. After the birth of his daughter, the King threatens to. . .
(a) smash Ungit into powder.
(b) kill his favorite servant.
(c) drag Orual by the hair.
(d) stab the Priest with a dagger.

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

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

14. 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) Anchises is a god and wants to love a mortal.
(c) She is a goddess and wants to beguile a mortal.
(d) The lions, lynxes, and bears followed her down the mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the KIng not moved by the Fox's story of a Greek king who killed his daughter, and was then punished by the gods?

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

3. When Psyche learns that Orual cannot see her palace at all, she expresses. . .

4. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?

5. In Orual's stubbornness and pride, she says she learns what through her argument with Psyche?

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