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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual offers Trunia lodging as a prisoner because

2. As Orual considers the temple and its dwellers, she realizes what?

3. What prevents Bardia from accompanying Orual a second time?

4. Orual wins the battle because

5. Orual believes that she has proven what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits Orual at the beginning of the chapter? What does he/she want?

2. What does Ansit confess to Orual regarding Bardia?

3. What test does Orual propose of Psyche?

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

5. How does Orual feel about the ceremony of the House of Ungit?

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

7. Describe the last days of the Fox.

8. How does Orual react to the death of Bardia?

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

10. What complaints does Orual make of the Gods during her trial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following thematic elements, and discuss why you think it is the most important in the text:

1) Logic vs. Faith

2) Ugliness vs. Beauty

3) Sacrifice

4) Power

5) Truth

Essay Topic 2

Choose one major character and explain the ways Lewis chooses to develop him or her as symbolic. What methods of characterization does the author use? Choose from the following or identify your own:

Characters: Orual, the Fox, Psyche, Redival, Bardia, the Priest, or Arnom.

Methods of Characterization: Actions, Dialog, Description, Other's Reactions, for example.

Essay Topic 3

Consider Till We Have Faces as an allegory and answer the following questions in your essay:

1) How does Lewis use the myth of Cupid and Psyche to communicate his theme(s)?

2) What do the key elements of this allegory (characters, symbols, imagery, allusions, for example) have to do with Lewis' message(s)?

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