1-4 Questions Flashcards
From what point of view is the story told
First person narrative, flashback - Orual is queen of gloom
What is the setting?
Glome, which is a reference to Rome
What are the circumstances of Orual’s childhood?
Father is mean mother is dead. New stepmother. Fox was her father’s slave, but like a mentor/grandfather to her. 
What is the main conflict develops?
Redival is jealous of psyche and intensifies after Redival is caught with a guy and is now jailed by the fox and Orual. 
Other stories told in flashback there’s also an interesting choice of verb is Oriel begins to describe herself as she was when she was younger. What is it? What does it indicate about her?
Was- she is no longer oriole because of everything that she’s been through
What is the reader know about oriole and Redival from the first chapter
They are sisters, who don’t get along Orual is oldest Orual is ugly and Redival is beautiful. (ambrosial hair)
How did the fox reward oriole for studying?
Teaching her poetry
How was the fox his relationship with oriole different from his relationship with Redival?
Orual loved fox like a father and respected him as a teacher. He gives her the love her dad never gave her. Redival treated him like a slave, and she did not like him.
What was it about the priest of Ungit that frightened Orual? Does that in anyway relate to the worship of the one true God? Why do the religious practices, followed by those who worship pagan gods mimic practices God himself created?
The holy temple smell, blood, scared Orual. Pagans believe there is life in blood. Jesus was our sacrifice, since he shed his own blood for us 
How did the fox become important to the king?
He was elevated to a position of authority, so he had more respect for him. He was a scholarly interpreter/Prime Minister.
What kind of relationship did oriole have with her father?
She was hated and abused, but when Orual took fox his place when he was sick, he respected her more
What did the king Hall the new baby? Why did oriole in the fox call her psyche?
Istra. that was the Greek name
What was the story sake made up about the Grey mountain?
She would be married to the greatest king of all when she was older, he would make her castle of golden amber on the Grey mountain
How did the fox compare psyche to the Greek legends?
She was prettier than Aphrodite, Helen, and Andromeda
What was Orual ‘s response to this?
She said it was a bad omen and didn’t agree
How did Redivals promiscuity put an end to the happiness that oriole had known with the fox and psyche
She put an end to the time they had together
What did Redival do that showed she was setting psyche up to be hurt
She had psyche. Tell Orual that people thought she was a goddess. psyche didn’t understand the threat that could come out of that.
How did the natural calamities of the land plan to revels hand?
They thought she had the ability to heal. her touch or kiss would give beauty. She helped drought and war. Then Redival made people think she was the cause of all the bad things.
What did people first believe the psyches ability to help them heal in their illness
They thought it was because of her beauty
What was Redival doing in the temple when Orual thought she was praying for a husband
She was trying to negotiate with the priest. she was willing to deliver psyche for whatever she wanted
