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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why would Orual rather see her loved ones dead than have their love stolen from her?
(a) She would rather see them immortal than loving someone else.
(b) She is angry with her loved ones for leaving her to die.
(c) She believes she is being judged by her loved ones and cannot bear it.
(d) It is too painful to have their love taken from her while she is left with nothing.

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

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

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

6. The fact that Orual does not see the beauty in the journey the second time suggests what?
(a) The place has changed since she visited first.
(b) Psyche's god will not allow her to see it.
(c) She is not open to its beauty as she was before.
(d) Psyche's god has disguised the Mountain.

7. 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) She no longer has the help of Bardia and the Fox.
(c) Psyche is preventing her from changing.
(d) The gods will not help her.

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

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

10. Psyche's anger comes chiefly from the fact that. . .
(a) Orual has used Psyche's love for her to manipulate the situation.
(b) Orual has told her the Fox and Bardia agree that her lover is not a god.
(c) Orual has suggested her lover is a madman or outlaw.
(d) Orual has harmed herself.

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

12. Orual begins to distinguish between the Queen and herself why?
(a) The Queen acts quickly and with courage and Orual seems powerless.
(b) Her sickness is creeping back and causing confusion.
(c) The Queen has insisted she leave Orual behind.
(d) She is beginning to lose her mind.

13. What does Orual realize about her complaint after she has delivered it to the gods?
(a) She has been reading it over and over again from start to finish.
(b) The gods have deceived her into thinking there is no answer.
(c) It was not her complaint, but someone else's.
(d) The gods would never let her finish it.

14. How does Orual describe the image of love she represents versus Psyche's image?
(a) She is heavy and cold while Psyche is resolute.
(b) She is burdened and resolute while Psyche is joyful.
(c) She is happy while Psyche is sad.
(d) She is joyful and Psyche is stern.

15. Orual discover her love for Bardia. . .
(a) was clear to all who knew her.
(b) was returned.
(c) was selfish and consuming.
(d) was beautiful and unselfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orual not notice the death of her own father?

2. Orual believes that she has proven what?

3. Orual expresses amazement that the people of Glome

4. Who does Orual feel guilty for thinking of while she waits for Psyche to expose her god?

5. Orual's last written words, "I might--" imply what?

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