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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Redival feel she will no longer attract men's attention on her walks to the temple?
(a) No one dares to talk to the king's daughters.
(b) People believe she carries the fever.
(c) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(d) She has become as ugly as Orual.

2. Why does Orual feel "as if a soft, cold hand had been laid" on her left side when the Fox calls Psyche "prettier than Aphrodite herself"?
(a) She believes Pysche is cursed.
(b) She believes the divine nature has no envy.
(c) She believes they will anger the King of the Mountain.
(d) She believes it is a bad omen to say such things about a god.

3. Orual first believes Redival is the Accursed because. . .
(a) she caused the famine.
(b) she caused the fever.
(c) she is worshiped as a goddess.
(d) she behaves immorally.

4. Who comes to the palace backed by an "army"?
(a) Ungit
(b) The king
(c) Batta
(d) The Priest

5. Before the King can banish the Fox to the mines, what event intercedes?
(a) The Fox poisons himself.
(b) Orual and the Fox run away.
(c) Messengers from Phars arrive to meet with the King.
(d) Messenger from Caphad declares war.

Short Answer Questions

1. The citizens of Glome believe in which gods?

2. Before the birth of King Trom's third child, the atmosphere of the castle is. . .

3. Where do Orual, Psyche, and the Fox spend most of their time?

4. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?

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

(see the answer key)

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