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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 is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?
(a) She fears the people will attach her.
(b) She fears she will be left to starve or be eaten by animals.
(c) She fears Ungit will have her revenge.
(d) She fears the god of Grey Mountain will take her.

2. Orual is comforted by the fire and food at her camp with Bardia. Why?
(a) It reminds her that she has been right all along.
(b) It soothes the bruises from her fight with Psyche.
(c) It makes her feel safe from the lions and Mountain beasts.
(d) It simplifies her situation and allows her to concentrate on mortal things.

3. When does Orual first understand that she is ugly?
(a) When the King implies that her face will frighten his new bride.
(b) When the priest insists she wear his bird mask.
(c) When the priest insists she wear a veil in front of him.
(d) When the King tells her Redival is prettier.

4. What frightens Orual most about the Priest of Ungit?
(a) The holiness of his temple-smell
(b) The fearful masks he wore in the temple
(c) The mating rituals he performed at the wedding
(d) The slaughtering of sacrificial beasts he performed

5. Orual believes the Fox is wrong about the gods because . . .
(a) he did not have the whole truth.
(b) he is angry at the gods.
(c) he only believes in Greek gods.
(d) he thought too well of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about Psyche's treatment of Orual when she sees Orual's bruises?

2. Who stands guard before Psyche's room?

3. Orual identifies which turn of events as "the subtlety of the god who is against us"?

4. What is Redival caught doing at the beginning of chapter 3?

5. As she regards the vision, Orual begins to believe what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Fox's personality.

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the Fox suggest that Orual needs a dose of hellebore too?

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

9. Why is Psyche ashamed to be mortal?

10. Describe Orual's childhood.

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