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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thoughts does Orual repress when resolving to save Psyche?
(a) She represses the thought that children must obey their parents.
(b) She represses the thought that murder is wrong.
(c) She represses the thought that Psyche may bear the child of a beast.
(d) She represses the thought that Psyche is happy and she should not meddle.

2. When Orual grows angry at Psyche's attitude, Psyche responds by
(a) growing angry in response.
(b) refusing to hear anything more from Orual.
(c) insisting that Orual leave until she reconsiders her position.
(d) continuing to explain her own excitement and longing.

3. Orual feels an urgency to escape the Mountain. Why?
(a) She regrets coming up the Mountain.
(b) Winter is coming and she finds the place fearful.
(c) Her sickness is beginning to return.
(d) She wants Psyche to return to the palace.

4. Why does Orual not recognize Psyche in the procession?
(a) Orual is not permitted to watch the procession.
(b) Psyche is not in the procession.
(c) Psyche is behind the Priest.
(d) Psyche is dressed up as a temple girl.

5. The color gray Lewis uses to describe the mist, the palace, and everything around it suggests what?
(a) It may be there or may not be; it is neither black or white.
(b) It is all a delusion.
(c) Psyche's world is without color or happiness.
(d) The palace is evil and foreboding.

6. To what does the Fox attribute the fact that the dangers and plagues disappeared from Glome when Psyche was sacrificed?
(a) Ungit's satisfaction
(b) Changing of the wind
(c) Divine nature's forgiveness
(d) Chance

7. Why does Psyche predict Orual will be able to return to her soon?
(a) Orual's duties with the King are over.
(b) The gods have arranged it.
(c) The King will not prevent her in the next few days.
(d) Her husband will allow it.

8. What is the thing Psyche felt most ashamed of during her first visit to the palace?
(a) She was ashamed of seeing a god.
(b) She was ashamed of leaving her family behind.
(c) She was ashamed of surviving the sacrifice.
(d) She was ashamed of being mortal.

9. Why has Redival become suddenly pious?
(a) She wants to call down Ungit's wrath on all of Glome.
(b) She is jealous of Orual and wants Ungit to let her rule Glome.
(c) She is jealous of Psyche and wants Ungit to take revenge.
(d) She wants to protect Psyche from Ungit.

10. For what reason does Orual delay her trip to the Mountain to bury Psyche?
(a) Her fear that Psyche is dead will be confirmed.
(b) She has no one to accompany her.
(c) She wants to wait for better weather.
(d) Her life will be meaningless after the burial.

11. Psyche believes the gods may not truly be cruel because. . .
(a) humans are cruel themselves.
(b) humans cannot understand what gods do.
(c) humans cause the gods to act cruelly.
(d) humans are both good and evil.

12. Whose voices does Orual hear crying out at the end of chapter 9?
(a) Bardia's and the Shadowbrute's.
(b) Bardia's and the King's.
(c) Bardia's and Psyche's.
(d) Bardia's and her own.

13. In the Fox's story of Aphrodite and Anchises, why does Aphrodite have to "dim her glory?"
(a) The goddess Ida would be terribly jealous of her.
(b) Anchises is a god and wants to love a mortal.
(c) The lions, lynxes, and bears followed her down the mountain.
(d) She is a goddess and wants to beguile a mortal.

14. How might Redival have influenced the Priest's desire to sacrifice Psyche?
(a) She introduced Psyche to the Priest at the house of Ungit.
(b) She told tales about Psyche at the house of Ungit.
(c) She insisted the Priest sacrifice Psyche.
(d) She taught Psyche to worship Ungit.

15. What emotion does Orual express most when discussing their father, the King?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Trust
(c) Love
(d) Anger

Short Answer Questions

1. Trying to make Psyche see reason, Orual begins to. . .

2. What is Psyche's one true fear about the sacrifice on the Mountain?

3. Why will the King not hear the Fox's solutions?

4. What name does Psyche call Orual that she learned from the Fox?

5. The King does not believe Orual loves Psyche because. . .

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