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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the battle, Orual is angry that Bardia says "The day's work is over" because it implies what?
(a) He believes she did not act like a lady.
(b) She is working him too hard.
(c) Bardia's time with her is only duty to him.
(d) He only wants to be with his wife.

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

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

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

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

7. Orual agrees to visit the natural hot spring because. . .
(a) she thinks that the Fox would have scolded her for missing it.
(b) she wants to please her young companions.
(c) she believes the Fox is waiting for her there.
(d) she wants to visit a temple near the spring.

8. The first truth Orual learns she has misunderstood is. . .
(a) how she hurt Redival by loving the Fox and Psyche.
(b) how the gods used to love and care for her.
(c) how she rejected the Fox and Redival when Psyche came.
(d) how she and Batta used to be best friends.

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

10. When Orual learns of Batta's behavior toward other slaves, she. . .
(a) marries Batta off to a good man.
(b) orders Batta hanged.
(c) sells Batta to Phars.
(d) orders Batta out of Glome.

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

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

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

14. The story the old priest relays implies that
(a) Orual knew that Psyche's husband was a god, but destroyed her happiness out of jealousy.
(b) Orual could not guess the answer to the gods' riddle and so was destroyed.
(c) The sisters had no clear signs from the gods.
(d) Psyche was jealous of her sisters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Psyche's anger comes chiefly from the fact that. . .

2. Orual's two strengths as Queen are:

3. Even though the King is not home to catch her, Orual slinks back into the palace because. . .

4. In her summary of the years that pass, Orual reports that tales of her reign . . .

5. Orual expresses amazement that the people of Glome

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