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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Orual resist the "tyrannically" strong urge to re-cross the river and forgive Psyche?
(a) Gram will not let her re-cross the river.
(b) Her pride and anger keep her from doing it.
(c) Her hatred for Psyche prevents her.
(d) She cannot find Psyche.

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

6. To what two things does Orual compare the ugly scribble of her complaint?
(a) Her father's voice and the faces in the Ungit stone.
(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 Batta's arms.

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

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

9. 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.

10. When Orual reunites with Psyche, she realizes that everything that was or will be existed. . .
(a) in answer to Orual's complaint.
(b) for Psyche's sake.
(c) for the god's sake.
(d) for the purpose of teaching Orual her lesson.

11. In the title Till We Have Faces, the "faces" are. . .
(a) our true selves, or the words that lay at the center of our souls.
(b) our roles as Queens, Kings, Soldiers, Priests, for example.
(c) our masks and veils.
(d) our repeated complaints, and the demand for answers.

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

13. Orual blames Bardia's illness on. . .
(a) fever.
(b) poison.
(c) old age.
(d) his nagging wife.

14. Orual decides to amend her book. Why?
(a) She is unhappy with the first draft.
(b) She fears the godess will punish her.
(c) She regrets writing about her loves.
(d) She has learned some of it is untrue.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?

3. The story the old priest relays implies that

4. The rite of the Year's birth represents

5. When she finally grows sick of the routine of her days in Glome, Orual. . .

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