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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Orual's plan to avoid war with Phars and still defeat Argan?
(a) She will send her armies to challenge Argan.
(b) She will gather an army and storm Phars.
(c) She will challenge him herself to a single fight.
(d) She will use Trunia as bait for Argan, then kill them both.

2. Orual discover her love for Bardia. . .
(a) was beautiful and unselfish.
(b) was clear to all who knew her.
(c) was selfish and consuming.
(d) was returned.

3. That Orual's father reveals she is Ungit is an example of . . .
(a) point of View.
(b) irony.
(c) hyperbole.
(d) allusion.

4. Orual's last written words, "I might--" imply what?
(a) She has continued to doubt the god up until her death.
(b) She has committed suicide.
(c) She has embraced the god and the possibility of reconciliation.
(d) She fears and hates the god, but wants him to bring her complaint to Greece.

5. The gods cannot answer Orual's charge against them. Why?
(a) They have no answer.
(b) The gods refuse to acknowledge her.
(c) Humans cannot understand the answer.
(d) The answer is already before her.

6. The fact that Orual does not see the beauty in the journey the second time suggests what?
(a) She is not open to its beauty as she was before.
(b) Psyche's god will not allow her to see it.
(c) The place has changed since she visited first.
(d) Psyche's god has disguised the Mountain.

7. Psyche cannot even imagine hiding her plan from her husband because. . .
(a) she is afraid to make him angry.
(b) she believes he would want her to see him.
(c) she is honorable and loves her husband.
(d) she wants Orual to believe she is brave.

8. Who does Orual feel guilty for thinking of while she waits for Psyche to expose her god?
(a) The King
(b) Gram
(c) Bardia
(d) The Fox

9. Orual's successor as ruler of Glome will be:
(a) Daaran
(b) Redival
(c) Phars
(d) Trunia

10. Ultimately, Psyche agrees to go ahead with Orual's demands because. . .
(a) she has no other choice is she is to live.
(b) she loves Orual and does not want her to kill herself.
(c) she believes Orual will attack her husband next.
(d) she wants to see her husband's face.

11. In the title Till We Have Faces, the "faces" are. . .
(a) our masks and veils.
(b) our true selves, or the words that lay at the center of our souls.
(c) our roles as Queens, Kings, Soldiers, Priests, for example.
(d) our repeated complaints, and the demand for answers.

12. When Orual says "I did and I did and I did and what does it matter what I did," what is she implying?
(a) Her works as Queen made her feel insignificant.
(b) Her works as Queen never amounted to anything.
(c) Her works as Queen would be undone by the next King.
(d) Her works as Queen could not undo her sin against Psyche.

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

14. After the battle, Orual is angry that Bardia says "The day's work is over" because it implies what?
(a) He only wants to be with his wife.
(b) She is working him too hard.
(c) He believes she did not act like a lady.
(d) Bardia's time with her is only duty to him.

15. Why is Trunia seeking refuge in Glome?
(a) He rebelled against his brother in Phars and was defeated.
(b) He is the new King of Phars but is hated by the people.
(c) He rebelled against the King and wants to see him dead.
(d) He wants to be King of Glome.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Fox's visions show Orual. . .

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

3. As Orual considers the temple and its dwellers, she realizes what?

4. For the first time, Orual feels what emotion behind her veil?

5. Orual believes that she has proven what?

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