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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To prepare Orual for killing a man, Bardia insists that she. . .
(a) kill a slave.
(b) kill a pig.
(c) kill a cow.
(d) kill a soldier.

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

3. Orual believes that she has proven what?
(a) The gods do not exist.
(b) Psyche deserves to be exiled.
(c) The gods hate her and want to punish her.
(d) Psyche never loved her.

4. The Fox's visions show Orual. . .
(a) that Psyche and Orual were the same person.
(b) that Psyche and Orual would never be reunited.
(c) that Psyche did not suffer because Orual bore the anguish for her.
(d) that Psyche did not suffer because the god protected her.

5. Why does "queening" suit Orual so well?
(a) She can concentrate wholly on her love for Bardia.
(b) She can control others' actions and decisions.
(c) She can be sure her subjects and slaves are loyal.
(d) She loses herself in her duties and forgets her sorrow over Psyche.

6. Orual's successor as ruler of Glome will be:
(a) Trunia
(b) Phars
(c) Redival
(d) Daaran

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

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

9. Why does Orual believe she cannot change her soul from an ugly one into a beautiful one?
(a) She no longer has the help of Bardia and the Fox.
(b) The gods will not help her.
(c) No one in the palace will help her.
(d) Psyche is preventing her from changing.

10. Orual believes she and Ansit cannot be friends because. . .
(a) Ansit is uneducated and feels threated by Orual.
(b) Ansit is poor and has no power.
(c) Ansit is jealous of Orual's time with Bardia.
(d) Bardia loves Orual best.

11. Orual compares the writing of her book to surgery. Why?
(a) It took her weeks to recover from writing it.
(b) She was so meticulous and careful about every detail.
(c) She found every word of it painful.
(d) The gods changed her through the process.

12. Orual offers Trunia lodging as a prisoner because
(a) Her father has warned her against him.
(b) All of Glome knows he cannot be trusted.
(c) She needs to avoid war with Phars.
(d) She believes he will try to take her throne.

13. Orual expresses amazement that the people of Glome
(a) Do not recognize her unveiled.
(b) Rejoice at the
(c) Seem depressed and aggitated on the Year's Birth.
(d) No longer beleive in the

14. To what two things does Orual compare the ugly scribble of her complaint?
(a) Her father's voice and Batta's arms.
(b) Her father's voice and his fists.
(c) Her father's voice and the mirror in the Pillar Room.
(d) Her father's voice and the faces in the Ungit stone.

15. Orual's two strengths as Queen are:
(a) The counsel of the Fox and her slave Poobi
(b) Her silver mines and her veil
(c) The counsel of Bardia and the Fox, and her veil
(d) Her veil and her helmet

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .

2. How does Orual describe the image of love she represents versus Psyche's image?

3. Orual "punishes" the Fox for what "sin?"

4. The rite of the Year's birth represents

5. What is ironic about the Fox's apology for attempting to manipulate her when he says that "Love is not a thing to be so used"?

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