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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name have the people begun to call Psyche?

2. Where do Orual, Psyche, and the Fox spend most of their time?

3. Why is the Fox not downcast about being a slave?

4. What does Psyche believe about the Grey Mountain, even as a child?

5. What does Bardia make Orual swear to before he lets her into Psyche's chamber?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Psyche ashamed to be mortal?

2. How do Orual and the Fox end up "babysitting" Redival?

3. Why does the King begin to use the Fox as an advisor?

4. Why does Psyche's mention of "He" anger Orual?

5. What is Redival's purpose in visiting the temple so frequently?

6. Why does Orual focus on the most fearful possibilities for Psyche's death rather than encouraging her?

7. What are the King's reasons for sacrificing Psyche?

8. Orual calls the love she feels for Psyche "deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved." What does this imply about Orual's former thoughts on leaving Psyche to her happiness?

9. What reasons does the Fox have for wanting to commit suicide?

10. Ultimately, why is Psyche happy to be sacrificed to the god of Grey Mountain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Till We Have Faces as an allegory and answer the following questions in your essay:

1) How does Lewis use the myth of Cupid and Psyche to communicate his theme(s)?

2) What do the key elements of this allegory (characters, symbols, imagery, allusions, for example) have to do with Lewis' message(s)?

Essay Topic 2

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that "Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it." Consider the role of truth in Till We Have Faces--what is true, what do the characters recognize as being true, and how to they come to recognize truth? Then write an essay in which you defend, refute, or qualify Chesterton's quote as it applies to Lewis's book.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following thematic elements, and discuss why you think it is the most important in the text:

1) Logic vs. Faith

2) Ugliness vs. Beauty

3) Sacrifice

4) Power

5) Truth

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