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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. What news does the messenger bring to the Pillar Room?

2. The story the old priest relays implies that

3. After the god's voice prevents her from committing suicide, it tells her she must. . .

4. Orual wins the battle because

5. Orual offers Trunia lodging as a prisoner because

Short Essay Questions

1. What help does Orual hope the Gods will provide?

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

3. What conflict comes between Orual and the Fox?

4. What has prepared Orual to rule as queen of Glome?

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

6. How does Bardia hurt Orual's feelings?

7. How does Orual hope to use Trunia and Redival to bring peace to Glome and Phars?

8. What test does Orual propose of Psyche?

9. How does the God reveal himself to Orual?

10. Describe the last days of the Fox.

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

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)?

Essay Topic 3

Saint Augustine once said that "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." How is this definition of faith demonstrated in Till We Have Faces?

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