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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. For the first time, Orual feels what emotion behind her veil?
(a) Guilt
(b) Fear
(c) Power
(d) Love

6. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?
(a) She believes she can express her love by helping her wounded sister.
(b) She believes Psyche is embarrassed and wants to apologize.
(c) She believes Psyche will never love her otherwise.
(d) She fears Psyche will never love her.

7. 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 and Orual were the same person.
(d) that Psyche did not suffer because the god protected her.

8. The god "changes the past" by suggesting what?
(a) Orual has come to the Mountain to be sacrificed.
(b) Orual must rewrite her complaint against the gods.
(c) Orual has killed Psyche.
(d) Orual always knew he was real but chose to deny it.

9. Why is Trunia seeking refuge in Glome?
(a) He rebelled against his brother in Phars and was defeated.
(b) He wants to be King of Glome.
(c) He rebelled against the King and wants to see him dead.
(d) He is the new King of Phars but is hated by the people.

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

11. While Redival professes to grieve for the King and celebrate Orual's succession, she is primarily concerned that. . .
(a) Orual should allow her to leave Glome.
(b) Orual should appoint her an advisor.
(c) Orual should share the throne with her.
(d) Orual should find her a good husband.

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

13. Psyche's biggest fear for the King at the end of the chapter is. . .
(a) that he should prevent her from fighting.
(b) that he should find she has been acting as Queen.
(c) that he should die and leave her alone.
(d) that he should live.

14. Psyche cannot even imagine hiding her plan from her husband because. . .
(a) she believes he would want her to see him.
(b) she is afraid to make him angry.
(c) she wants Orual to believe she is brave.
(d) she is honorable and loves her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Orual's plan to avoid war with Phars and still defeat Argan?

3. 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"?

4. The story the old priest relays implies that

5. The gods cannot answer Orual's charge against them. Why?

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