View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the KIng not moved by the Fox's story of a Greek king who killed his daughter, and was then punished by the gods?
(a) He thinks the Fox invented the story.
(b) He thinks the gods would never punish a king.
(c) He has no daughters.
(d) He thinks he has no one to murder him as the Greek king was murdered.

2. Where do Orual, Psyche, and the Fox spend most of their time?
(a) In Greece
(b) On the Grey Mountain
(c) In the Temple of Ungit
(d) On the hill-top looking down on Glome

3. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?
(a) She nurses him back to health and catches the fever.
(b) She becomes the healer to the citizens of Glome.
(c) She begins to rule the kingdom in place of her ill father.
(d) She takes his place as King's advisor.

4. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) She has become as ugly as Orual.
(b) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.
(c) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(d) People believe she carries the fever.

5. Orual feels an urgency to escape the Mountain. Why?
(a) She wants Psyche to return to the palace.
(b) Her sickness is beginning to return.
(c) She regrets coming up the Mountain.
(d) Winter is coming and she finds the place fearful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psyche serves Orual:

2. The Fox's decree that Justice, Equality, the Soul, musical note, things behind our backs, and things too far away to be seen suggests that he is ruled by . . .

3. On their return home, Bardia expresses what opinion on the subject of Psyche's lover?

4. What frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?

5. What is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Orual's growing fear throughout the chapter?

2. What is Redival's purpose in visiting the temple so frequently?

3. Orual calls the love she feels for Psyche "deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved." What does this imply about Orual's former thoughts on leaving Psyche to her happiness?

4. What is the lesson the Fox expresses about Nature, or the Whole, in chapter 8?

5. Bardia's suggestion that he and Orual sleep back to back like soldiers teaches Orual what about herself?

6. Orual claims she writes her book for what reason?

7. Describe the reasons Orual is prevented from seeing Pscyhe for a final time at her burial.

8. Why does the King kill a slave boy at the beginning of the chapter?

9. Why does the King begin to use the Fox as an advisor?

10. Why is Orual contemptuous of men?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 942 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample