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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what two things does Orual compare the ugly scribble of her complaint?
(a) Her father's voice and Batta's arms.
(b) Her father's voice and the mirror in the Pillar Room.
(c) Her father's voice and his fists.
(d) Her father's voice and the faces in the Ungit stone.

2. Orual's visit with Ansit reveals what?
(a) Her overburdening Bardia with work made his life difficult.
(b) Bardia and Ansit loved each other.
(c) Ansit tried to prevent Bardia from working with Orual.
(d) Ilerdia had betrayed Ansit.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Orual discover her love for Bardia. . .

2. Psyche's anger comes chiefly from the fact that. . .

3. What effect does the King's accident have on Orual?

4. While Redival professes to grieve for the King and celebrate Orual's succession, she is primarily concerned that. . .

5. Orual believes she and Ansit cannot be friends because. . .

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the last days of the Fox.

2. What conflict comes between Orual and the Fox?

3. Who visits Orual at the beginning of the chapter? What does he/she want?

4. In this chapter, what is the source of conflict between Orual and Psyche?

5. How does Orual's battle with ugliness come to an end?

6. What is the subject of Orual's book? Why has she written it?

7. How is it that Psyche could have endured so much without any anguish?

8. What does Ansit confess to Orual regarding Bardia?

9. What is Orual's plan to defeat Argan and rescue Phars?

10. Describe the story of Istra.

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