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

2. What word from the narrative refers to a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most?
(a) Propriety.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Demonstration.
(d) Apostate.

3. How did author Frank R. Stockton support himself before his work as an author?
(a) He was a banker.
(b) He was a book binder.
(c) He was a butcher.
(d) He was a wood engraver.

4. How are the king's "subjects refined and cultured," according to the narrator?
(a) "By a panel of judges chosen from the populace."
(b) "By displays of musical talent and performance."
(c) "By a determination of the logic of the crime."
(d) "By exhibitions of manly and beastly valor."

5. What literary word refers to a typical example of a certain person or thing, such as the characters in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
(a) Archetype.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Proscenium.
(d) Parable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the vaults of the amphitheater described?

2. Where was "The Lady, or the Tiger?" first published?

3. What literary term refers to the background information provided by the author in the beginning of the story?

4. From what perspective is the narrative related in the beginning of the story?

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

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