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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. Arnom delivers the news that
(a) Bardia has been poisoned.
(b) Bardia's wife has left him.
(c) Bardia's health is failing.
(d) Bardia's wife has delievered another child.

2. Orual's successor as ruler of Glome will be:
(a) Trunia
(b) Daaran
(c) Phars
(d) Redival

3. Psyche cannot even imagine hiding her plan from her husband because. . .
(a) she is honorable and loves her husband.
(b) she wants Orual to believe she is brave.
(c) she is afraid to make him angry.
(d) she believes he would want her to see him.

4. The fact that Orual does not see the beauty in the journey the second time suggests what?
(a) Psyche's god has disguised the Mountain.
(b) She is not open to its beauty as she was before.
(c) The place has changed since she visited first.
(d) Psyche's god will not allow her to see it.

5. After Orual frees the Fox, she convinces herself that he will leave her. Why?
(a) He loves his own family more than her.
(b) He fears and loathes her now that she is Queen.
(c) He never loved her, only Psyche.
(d) He is angry at her for keeping him a slave so long.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .

2. Orual decides to amend her book. Why?

3. What is the difference between Bardia's belief about Psyche's lover and the Fox's belief?

4. What, according to the Fox, is the whole art and joy of words?

5. When she leaves the castle, Orual's disguise consists of. . .

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Orual's strengths as a queen?

2. What is Orual's plan to defeat Argan and rescue Phars?

3. What does Ansit confess to Orual regarding Bardia?

4. How does Orual's battle with ugliness come to an end?

5. How does the God reveal himself to Orual?

6. How is Orual persuaded not to kill herself?

7. In this chapter, what is the source of conflict between Orual and Psyche?

8. How does Orual motivate herself to draw blood in combat with Argan?

9. What is the subject of Orual's book? Why has she written it?

10. Describe the story of Istra.

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