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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How soon after making his decision is the criminal in the arena rewarded or punished?
(a) After one day.
(b) Immediately.
(c) After two days.
(d) After a week.

2. How are the bells described if the criminal is found innocent in the arena?
(a) "Gay brass bells."
(b) "Grey, sullen bells."
(c) "Mournful bells."
(d) "Heavy metal bells."

3. What pleases the king the most, according to the narrative in the beginning of the story?
(a) "To remind his citizens of his warmth and generosity."
(b) "To incur upon his community a sense of love, peace, and justice."
(c) "To make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places."
(d) "To uphold justice by the methods delivered him by the great gods."

4. How is the king described in the beginning of the story?
(a) "Logical but obtuse."
(b) "Cultured and charismatic."
(c) "Intellectual and scientific."
(d) "Semi-barbaric."

5. The narrator says what of "the judgments of the king's arena" in Part 3?
(a) "There was glory in."
(b) "There was logic to."
(c) "There was no escape."
(d) "There was always the ability to appeal."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator remark regarding the unpredictability of the trials at the arena?

2. What word from the narrative means to bring out or to obtain by special means?

3. What children's magazine was Frank R. Stockton editor of?

4. What story did Stockton write that acts as a sequel of sorts to "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

5. How does the narrator describe the location of the tiger in the arena?

(see the answer key)

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