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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Fox grows ill, what happens to Orual?
(a) She nurses him back to health and catches the fever.
(b) She becomes the healer to the citizens of Glome.
(c) She takes his place as King's advisor.
(d) She begins to rule the kingdom in place of her ill father.

2. Trying to make Psyche see reason, Orual begins to. . .
(a) shake Psyche.
(b) drag Psyche off of the Mountain.
(c) scream for Bardia's help.
(d) slap Psyche's face.

3. 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) She has become as ugly as Orual.
(c) The men have all seen Istra's superior beauty.
(d) People believe she carries the fever.

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

5. What is significant about the fact that the judge sits at the same level as Orual?
(a) It implies she is not below or less than the gods.
(b) It implies she has never really left the world of the gods.
(c) It implies she is a god herself.
(d) It implies the gods are essentially humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?

2. Orual denies the feeling of elation rising in her at the beauty of nature. Why?

3. Orual begins her story on the day. . .

4. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?

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

(see the answer key)

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