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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Aphrodite
(d) Ungit and Anchises

2. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?
(a) Gossipping with Batta
(b) Running away
(c) Stealing grain for the poor
(d) Kissing a soldier

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

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

5. What does Orual mean by the "reek of holiness" that has overtaken the palace?
(a) She means that she now believes in the truth of Ungit.
(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 the sacrifice had already taken place.

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

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

8. Bardia offers to accompany Orual up the Mountain. Why?
(a) Orual has threatened to turn him over to the King if he does not.
(b) He wants to prevent her from burying Psyche.
(c) He wants to assure her safety and help her in an honorable task.
(d) The King has asked Bardia to watch over Orual.

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

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

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

12. Why will the King not hear the Fox's solutions?
(a) He does not trust the Fox.
(b) He wants to dishonor Psyche.
(c) He wants to save himself and his crown.
(d) He wants to save Psyche on his own.

13. How might Redival have influenced the Priest's desire to sacrifice Psyche?
(a) She taught Psyche to worship Ungit.
(b) She introduced Psyche to the Priest at the house of Ungit.
(c) She insisted the Priest sacrifice Psyche.
(d) She told tales about Psyche at the house of Ungit.

14. Orual begins her story on the day. . .
(a) her stepmother came to them.
(b) the prince was born.
(c) her mother died.
(d) Psyche was born.

15. When Psyche learns that Orual cannot see her palace at all, she expresses. . .
(a) anger and regret.
(b) sadness and pity.
(c) delight and satisfaction.
(d) superiority and arrogance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?

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

3. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?

4. When Psyche is sick with fever she speaks mostly of what?

5. What promise does Psyche extract from Orual?

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