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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Part 3 that "the thinking part of the community could bring no charge of" what?
(a) "Retribution in the king's trials."
(b) "Incorrigibility to the institution."
(c) "Unfairness against the plan."
(d) "Justice in the institution."

2. What word from the story refers to a requital according to merits or deserts?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Retribution.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Compehension.

3. In what tense is the story related?
(a) Present tense.
(b) Passive future tense.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Future tense.

4. How are the vaults of the amphitheater described?
(a) "Cavernous."
(b) "Mysterious."
(c) "Steel-walled."
(d) "Placating."

5. What pleases the king the most, according to the narrative in the beginning of the story?
(a) "To uphold justice by the methods delivered him by the great gods."
(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 remind his citizens of his warmth and generosity."

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the distant neighbors described that helped to polish the king's ideas?

2. What word from the narrative refers to singers in a choir?

3. What does "barbarism" in the narrative most closely reflect?

4. How does the narrator describe the audience in the case where a criminal is killed in the arena?

5. How would you describe the setting of "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

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