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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 try to escape with Psyche.
(c) She will never try to fight him again.
(d) She will come out again when he knocks.

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

3. 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) The gods have arranged it.
(d) Orual's duties with the King are over.

4. Psyche's appearance at the beginning of the chapter suggests
(a) She is no longer sane.
(b) She has been badly beaten.
(c) She has not suffered.
(d) She is starving and cold.

5. Orual describes Bardia's statement that "If a man was blind and she weren't the King's daughter, she'd make him a good wife," as. . .
(a) the nearest thing to a love-speech ever made to her.
(b) a proposal of marriage.
(c) the cruellest thing anyone had ever said about her.
(d) a challenge to her honor.

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

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

8. Why does the palace fade before Orual's eyes?
(a) She begins to doubt she sees it, and it disappears.
(b) She is afraid of the vision, so it disappears.
(c) She calls out for Bardia, and the vision disappears
(d) She calls out for Psyche to leave the palace.

9. 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

10. Why has the Fox been allowed such freedom with the King's daughters?
(a) He has become a trusted advisor to Orual.
(b) He has become a trusted advisor to the King.
(c) He has become an advisor to the Priest of Ungit.
(d) He has become a potential husband for Psyche.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 may be there or may not be; it is neither black or white.
(d) It is all a delusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orual not share her vision with the Fox when she relays the meeting with Psyche?

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

3. Before the King can banish the Fox to the mines, what event intercedes?

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

5. Psyche's refusal to leave the Mountain arises chiefly from what reason?

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