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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. What does Psyche say that unintentionally wounds Orual?
(a) Psyche tells Orual she looks just like their father.
(b) Psyche tells there is something bad coming toward them.
(c) Psyche tells Orual she is not faithful enough to understand the situation.
(d) Psyche tells Orual she is too tired to discuss the situation.

2. What does Orual mean by the "reek of holiness" that has overtaken the palace?
(a) She means that Ungit's stone had been placed in her house.
(b) She means that the false and superstitious rituals of the sacrifice had begun.
(c) She means that the sacrifice had already taken place.
(d) She means that she now believes in the truth of Ungit.

3. Orual's comparison of the Priest to a vulture foreshadows
(a) A death
(b) A battle with the king
(c) A plague of birds
(d) A war

4. What prevents Orual from following Psyche up the Mountain?
(a) She is too weak from her beatings to follow.
(b) She is too angry at Psyche to follow.
(c) The temple girls prevent her from going.
(d) The King has locked her in the tower.

5. 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 gods would never punish a king.
(b) He thinks he has no one to murder him as the Greek king was murdered.
(c) He has no daughters.
(d) He thinks the Fox invented the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?

2. What thoughts has Orual repeated about the gods throughout the story?

3. At the start of the chapter, Orual determines to. . .

4. Orual describes Bardia's statement that "If a man was blind and she weren't the King's daughter, she'd make him a good wife," as. . .

5. Before the King can banish the Fox to the mines, what event intercedes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the King's reasons for sacrificing Psyche?

4. Why does Bardia eventually allow Orual into Psyche's room?

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

6. Why is Psyche ashamed to be mortal?

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

8. How are people's attitudes changing toward Psyche?

9. Ultimately, why is Psyche happy to be sacrificed to the god of Grey Mountain?

10. Why is Orual contemptuous of men?

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