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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 very cruel and very old.
(b) She is wearing a thick veil and many clothes.
(c) She is very small and very frightened.
(d) She is beautiful and smiling.

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

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

4. Psyche believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because. . .
(a) he doesn't have the whole truth.
(b) he is angry at the gods.
(c) he only believes in Greek gods.
(d) he is too religious.

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

6. Orual denies the feeling of elation rising in her at the beauty of nature. Why?
(a) She feels indulging it would be like laughing on the way to Psyche's funeral.
(b) Bardia warns her against the feeling.
(c) She understands it is a deception of her senses.
(d) She feels feverish and unsure of her perceptions.

7. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows
(a) A battle with the king
(b) A plague of birds
(c) A death
(d) A war

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

9. When Psyche suggests her god might be able to make Orual see and understand her situation, how does Orual respond?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She challenges the god to make her see.
(c) She says she hates it and does not want to understand it.
(d) She begs Psyche to admit she cannot see it either.

10. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?
(a) Bardia's and her own.
(b) Bardia's and the Shadowbrute's.
(c) Bardia's and Psyche's.
(d) Bardia's and the King's.

11. What were the "knocks of the hammer" that destroyed Orual's happiness with the Fox and Psyche?
(a) Lack of an army and Psyche's desertion of the family
(b) Bad marriages, starvation, and traitorous soldiers
(c) The priest's cursing of the family and the Fox's death
(d) Bad harvests, strangers' worship of Psyche, and rebellion

12. Why does Psyche believe men behave in an evil way?
(a) They are to be pitied.
(b) They do not know what is good from what is bad.
(c) They are basically good, but choose to do bad for fun.
(d) They are all evil at heart.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?

2. As she regards the vision, Orual begins to believe what?

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

4. When Orual sees her father through her Stepmother's eyes, she believes that his appearance will not. . .

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

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