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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the doors that the criminal must choose from described in the narrative?
(a) Blue and red.
(b) Exactly alike.
(c) White and black.
(d) Round and square.

2. What children's magazine was Frank R. Stockton editor of?
(a) Time magazine.
(b) The Riverside Magazine.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) Hearth and Home.

3. Of the criminal facing trial in the arena, the narrator says that he is subject to no guidance "but that of the aforementioned" what?
(a) "Letter from the king."
(b) "Riddle depicted by the jester."
(c) "Clues indicated from the masses."
(d) "Impartial and incorruptible chance."

4. How are the iron bells described that ring if the criminal is killed in the arena?
(a) Merry.
(b) Valiant.
(c) Doleful.
(d) Incorrigible.

5. When does the story take place?
(a) "In the years of the Great War."
(b) "In the 1800s."
(c) "In the very olden time."
(d) "Many many years into the future."

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative refers to a tissue inserted into another tissue?

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

3. What does the word "incorruptible" from the story mean?

4. Of the king, the narrator says in Part 2 that he "knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than" what?

5. What does the word "untrammelled" from the story mean?

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