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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Orual feel guilty for thinking of while she waits for Psyche to expose her god?
(a) Bardia
(b) The King
(c) The Fox
(d) Gram

2. Orual agrees to visit the natural hot spring because. . .
(a) she thinks that the Fox would have scolded her for missing it.
(b) she believes the Fox is waiting for her there.
(c) she wants to please her young companions.
(d) she wants to visit a temple near the spring.

3. Who does the Queen vow to kill at the end of chapter 19?
(a) Poobi
(b) The King
(c) Orual
(d) Bardia

4. What, according to the Fox, is the whole art and joy of words?
(a) To say what the philosophers have taught us to say
(b) To say what others need to hear
(c) To make your thoughts beautiful to the gods
(d) To say the very thing you really mean

5. What prevents Bardia from accompanying Orual a second time?
(a) He is to watch over the house in the King's absence.
(b) He does not believe she will act sensibly.
(c) He is ruled by his wife who will not allow it.
(d) He has sworn to the King he will not accompany her.

6. The rite of the Year's birth represents
(a) The new priest's Greek philosophies.
(b) The end of Ungit's reign.
(c) Ungit's birth from earth.
(d) Man's

7. What does Orual see in the faces of the people of Glome as they gathered in the streets?
(a) They do not care for her, only for a free show or an oddity.
(b) They truly believe in her as Queen.
(c) They seem hopeful for the first time in years.
(d) They disapprove of her, and find the fight distasteful.

8. What is Orual's plan to avoid war with Phars and still defeat Argan?
(a) She will gather an army and storm Phars.
(b) She will send her armies to challenge Argan.
(c) She will use Trunia as bait for Argan, then kill them both.
(d) She will challenge him herself to a single fight.

9. The rams of the gods trample Orual. Why?
(a) They are overjoyed to see her.
(b) Their gladness led them on without noticing Orual.
(c) It was the wrath of the gods.
(d) Their anger caused them to sweep over her.

10. Arnom delivers the news that
(a) Bardia has been poisoned.
(b) Bardia's wife has delievered another child.
(c) Bardia's wife has left him.
(d) Bardia's health is failing.

11. The god's words "you also shall be psyche" suggest what to Orual?
(a) She will live with the god in the valley.
(b) She has to be sacrificed in the valley.
(c) She will be forced into exile as well.
(d) She is beautiful too.

12. When Orual learns of Batta's behavior toward other slaves, she. . .
(a) sells Batta to Phars.
(b) orders Batta out of Glome.
(c) marries Batta off to a good man.
(d) orders Batta hanged.

13. Orual wins the battle because
(a) Trunia has given Orual the secrets to defeating Argan.
(b) Argan does not know how to fight like the people of Glome.
(c) Argan's people do not believe in him.
(d) Argan is overconfident and makes mistakes.

14. The story the old priest relays implies that
(a) Orual could not guess the answer to the gods' riddle and so was destroyed.
(b) The sisters had no clear signs from the gods.
(c) Psyche was jealous of her sisters.
(d) Orual knew that Psyche's husband was a god, but destroyed her happiness out of jealousy.

15. That Orual's father reveals she is Ungit is an example of . . .
(a) point of View.
(b) allusion.
(c) irony.
(d) hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual decides to amend her book. Why?

2. Orual's veil represents her. . .

3. To what two things does Orual compare the ugly scribble of her complaint?

4. What effect does the King's accident have on Orual?

5. Orual believes that she has proven what?

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