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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe the language in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Stark.
(c) Factual.
(d) Flowery.

2. The king's vast amphitheater is described in Part 2 as "an agent of" what?
(a) "Poetic justice."
(b) "Cruel fate."
(c) "Evolution."
(d) "Change."

3. What word from the short story means uncivilized or primitive?
(a) Cultured.
(b) Apostate.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Exemplary.

4. How are the passages of the amphitheater described in Part 2?
(a) "Glass-walled."
(b) "Unseen."
(c) "Visible."
(d) "Steel-walled."

5. How does the narrator describe the audience in the case where a criminal is killed in the arena?
(a) "With merry laughter and dancing."
(b) "With bowed heads and downcast hearts."
(c) "With poetic songs of freedom."
(d) "With rapturous cries of justice."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Frank R. Stockton from?

3. What do the hired mourners do if the criminal on trial is killed?

4. What aspect common to children's stories did Frank R. Stockton avoid in his writing?

5. What is the duty of the person on trial one they enter the arena?

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