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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why will the King not hear the Fox's solutions?
(a) He wants to dishonor Psyche.
(b) He wants to save Psyche on his own.
(c) He does not trust the Fox.
(d) He wants to save himself and his crown.

2. What is the king's reaction when the people demand to see Psyche?
(a) He is compassionate and allows her to go.
(b) He is compassionate, but she refuses to go.
(c) He is angry and refuses to let her go.
(d) He is angry but sends her to them anyway.

3. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?
(a) The palace is evil and foreboding.
(b) It may be there or may not be; it is neither black or white.
(c) It is all a delusion.
(d) Psyche's world is without color or happiness.

4. Orual describes Psyche's youth as her own "best times" for which reason?
(a) Batta became a grandmother to Psyche.
(b) Psyche is as beautiful as a goddess.
(c) Orual and the Fox took Psyche away from Glome.
(d) Orual, Psyche, and the Fox loved and raised Psyche.

5. What news does the King deliver to his daughters and the Fox while they are studying?
(a) He is to marry the third daughter of the King of Caphad.
(b) He is at war with the King of Caphad.
(c) He is to marry the third daughter of the King of Phars.
(d) He is at war with the King of Phars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Redival want in exchange for her secrecy about Psyche's worship by the people?

2. To what does the Fox attribute the fact that the dangers and plagues disappeared from Glome when Psyche was sacrificed?

3. After the birth of his daughter, the King threatens to. . .

4. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?

5. Orual begins her story on the day. . .

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does the Fox have for wanting to commit suicide?

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

3. How has the palace changed since Orual came out of the Pillar Room?

4. As the discord grows between the sisters, what is happening to the kingdom of Glome?

5. Why does the war with Tarin's father seem to "leave a stench?"

6. How do Orual and the Fox end up "babysitting" Redival?

7. What does Orual believe is the true reason the gods have tried to give her such feelings of happiness on her journey, and why does she refuse to accept these feelings?

8. What does Psyche's helping Orual across the stream represent?

9. Why does Orual focus on the most fearful possibilities for Psyche's death rather than encouraging her?

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

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