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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orual realize about her complaint after she has delivered it to the gods?
(a) The gods have deceived her into thinking there is no answer.
(b) The gods would never let her finish it.
(c) She has been reading it over and over again from start to finish.
(d) It was not her complaint, but someone else's.

2. When Orual shuts the windows against the chains' weeping sound, she is symbolically. . .
(a) wishing for escape from the castle.
(b) refusing to let the world into her room.
(c) denying her love for Psyche.
(d) closing the door on her role as Queen.

3. When the god says "You are also Psyche," this implies what?
(a) She is as meaningful to the god as Psyche is.
(b) She and Psyche were twins.
(c) The god has sent her into exile.
(d) She will suffer under the weight of many difficult tasks.

4. Orual believes she and Ansit cannot be friends because. . .
(a) Bardia loves Orual best.
(b) Ansit is uneducated and feels threated by Orual.
(c) Ansit is poor and has no power.
(d) Ansit is jealous of Orual's time with Bardia.

5. For the first time, Orual feels what emotion behind her veil?
(a) Guilt
(b) Fear
(c) Love
(d) Power

6. While Redival professes to grieve for the King and celebrate Orual's succession, she is primarily concerned that. . .
(a) Orual should share the throne with her.
(b) Orual should allow her to leave Glome.
(c) Orual should find her a good husband.
(d) Orual should appoint her an advisor.

7. How does Orual describe the image of love she represents versus Psyche's image?
(a) She is heavy and cold while Psyche is resolute.
(b) She is joyful and Psyche is stern.
(c) She is burdened and resolute while Psyche is joyful.
(d) She is happy while Psyche is sad.

8. When she leaves the castle, Orual's disguise consists of. . .
(a) a full suit of armor.
(b) wearing a hood and helmet.
(c) going without her veil.
(d) the Fox's moth-eaten robe.

9. Orual expresses amazement that the people of Glome
(a) Rejoice at the
(b) Seem depressed and aggitated on the Year's Birth.
(c) No longer beleive in the
(d) Do not recognize her unveiled.

10. Orual fantasizes helping out a weeping and penitent Psyche. Why?
(a) She believes Psyche will never love her otherwise.
(b) She believes Psyche is embarrassed and wants to apologize.
(c) She fears Psyche will never love her.
(d) She believes she can express her love by helping her wounded sister.

11. After the god's voice prevents her from committing suicide, it tells her she must. . .
(a) find Psyche.
(b) become Ungit.
(c) die before she dies.
(d) attempt to escape the deadlands.

12. Why does Orual not notice the death of her own father?
(a) She thinks she hears Psyche crying outside.
(b) She is busy arranging the marriage of Redival and Trunia.
(c) The Fox distracts her by telling her a story.
(d) She and Bardia are busy discussing her armor.

13. The first truth Orual learns she has misunderstood is. . .
(a) how she hurt Redival by loving the Fox and Psyche.
(b) how she and Batta used to be best friends.
(c) how the gods used to love and care for her.
(d) how she rejected the Fox and Redival when Psyche came.

14. The story the old priest relays implies that
(a) Orual knew that Psyche's husband was a god, but destroyed her happiness out of jealousy.
(b) The sisters had no clear signs from the gods.
(c) Psyche was jealous of her sisters.
(d) Orual could not guess the answer to the gods' riddle and so was destroyed.

15. The rams of the gods trample Orual. Why?
(a) They are overjoyed to see her.
(b) It was the wrath of the gods.
(c) Their gladness led them on without noticing Orual.
(d) Their anger caused them to sweep over her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual wins the battle because

2. Even though the King is not home to catch her, Orual slinks back into the palace because. . .

3. Arnom delivers the news that

4. The god "changes the past" by suggesting what?

5. Orual offers Trunia lodging as a prisoner because

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