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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Orual believes you can escape thoughts of the gods or faith by. . .
(a) loving only those who love you in return.
(b) working hard, avoiding music or pleasure, and loving no one.
(c) seeking revenge on those that have wronged you.
(d) constantly looking up at the sky.

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

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

6. What do the grateful citizens of Glome do for Psyche that concerns Orual?
(a) They make ritual sacrifices at her marriage.
(b) They build her an altar in the Temple of Ungit.
(c) They compare her to Aphrodite and Helen.
(d) They leave offerings for her that are supposed to be special to Ungit.

7. Which of the following solutions does the Fox offer the King when faced with the sacrifice of Psyche?
(a) Trick the Priest
(b) Sacrifice his wealth and kingdom to another king for help
(c) Offer his son instead
(d) Offer the gods all his wealth and kingdom

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

9. When Psyche is sick with fever she speaks mostly of what?
(a) Her father's castle in Glome
(b) Her desire to leave Glome
(c) Her castle of gold and amber on the Grey Mountain
(d) Her travels on the Grey Mountain

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

11. What name have the people begun to call Psyche?
(a) The Goddess
(b) The Accursed
(c) The Accused
(d) The Accuser

12. As she regards the vision, Orual begins to believe what?
(a) Psyche is merely being deceived.
(b) Psyche is in terrible danger and Orual must cross the river to save her.
(c) She has become mad as Psyche is.
(d) She has wronged Psyche and must return and beg forgiveness.

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

14. What is ironic about Psyche's treatment of Orual when she sees Orual's bruises?
(a) She insists that Orual take her place in the sacrifice.
(b) She does not want Orual to visit her.
(c) She is as cruel as the King.
(d) She begins to comfort Orual as though Orual were the victim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?

2. The Fox suggests Pscyhe's lover is. . .

3. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?

4. What has changed about the King since he beat Orual in chapter 5?

5. The fact that Orual cannot see the Psyche's palace implies that. . .

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