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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .
(a) denying her love for Psyche.
(b) wishing for escape from the castle.
(c) refusing to let the world into her room.
(d) closing the door on her role as Queen.

3. After Orual frees the Fox, she convinces herself that he will leave her. Why?
(a) He fears and loathes her now that she is Queen.
(b) He loves his own family more than her.
(c) He never loved her, only Psyche.
(d) He is angry at her for keeping him a slave so long.

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

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

6. After the god's voice prevents her from committing suicide, it tells her she must. . .
(a) find Psyche.
(b) attempt to escape the deadlands.
(c) die before she dies.
(d) become Ungit.

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

8. The gods cannot answer Orual's charge against them. Why?
(a) The answer is already before her.
(b) Humans cannot understand the answer.
(c) The gods refuse to acknowledge her.
(d) They have no answer.

9. In the old priest's story of Psyche, the goddess is finally. . .
(a) cast off the earth by the god's mother.
(b) veiled in Spring and Summer.
(c) reunited with her sisters when she forgives them.
(d) reunited with her god when his mother releases her.

10. As Orual considers the temple and its dwellers, she realizes what?
(a) She has caused the temple to consume others.
(b) The temple consumes people and things and gives nothing back.
(c) The temple is a refuge for lost souls.
(d) The temple enriches the kingdom of Glome.

11. What news does the messenger bring to the Pillar Room?
(a) Argan has accepted her challenge.
(b) Trunia has escaped the castle.
(c) Argan has fled Glome.
(d) Trunia has accepted her challenge.

12. Orual "punishes" the Fox for what "sin?"
(a) He needed to go to sleep when she needed counsel.
(b) He left her alone when she was afraid.
(c) He grew ill when she needed protection from the King.
(d) He refused to help her with Psyche.

13. What is the difference between Bardia's belief about Psyche's lover and the Fox's belief?
(a) Bardia's belief is religious, and the Fox's belief is based on Greek mythology.
(b) Bardia's belief rests on superstition while the Fox's rests on logic.
(c) Bardia's belief is wrong, while the Fox's is correct.
(d) Bardia simply sees a need for revenge, and the Fox disagrees.

14. Orual's veil represents her. . .
(a) mourning.
(b) shame.
(c) virtue.
(d) need for attention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the first time, Orual feels what emotion behind her veil?

2. The fact that Orual does not see the beauty in the journey the second time suggests what?

3. The first truth Orual learns she has misunderstood is. . .

4. What prevents Bardia from accompanying Orual a second time?

5. The rams of the gods trample Orual. Why?

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