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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 emotion does Orual express most when discussing their father, the King?
(a) Anger
(b) Love
(c) Sorrow
(d) Trust

2. What do the grateful citizens of Glome do for Psyche that concerns Orual?
(a) They leave offerings for her that are supposed to be special to Ungit.
(b) They make ritual sacrifices at her marriage.
(c) They compare her to Aphrodite and Helen.
(d) They build her an altar in the Temple of Ungit.

3. What does Orual call the greatest shame of her life?
(a) The king's relief when he hears someone else is to be sacrificed.
(b) The king's insistence that he be sacrificed.
(c) The king's suggestion that Psyche be sacrificed.
(d) The king's suggestion that Orual be sacrificed.

4. Which of the following is not a way in which Glome suffered?
(a) Plagues of locusts came.
(b) The river dried and the fish died.
(c) Lions came and ate all the sheep.
(d) The cattle and bees died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name have the people begun to call Psyche?

2. What sacrifice does the Priest say Ungit demands?

3. For what reason does Orual delay her trip to the Mountain to bury Psyche?

4. Orual accuses Psyche of becoming cruel like the gods because. . .

5. What happens to Tarin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Orual mean by "And my struggle began," after they pass out of sight of the mountain?

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

4. Why do Orual and the Fox sense misfortune for Psyche?

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

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

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

8. What happens to Orual when she hears that Psyche is to be sacrificed?

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

10. Why is Psyche ashamed to be mortal?

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