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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe the princess doing when she envisioned her lover at the door revealing the lady in Part 5?
(a) Leaving the kingdom.
(b) Singing along with the dancing maidens.
(c) Gnashing her teeth and tearing her hair.
(d) Killing her father.

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

3. Of the lady behind the door, the princess envisions her "flushing cheek and sparkling eye of" what, in Part 5?
(a) "Triumph."
(b) "Justice."
(c) "Sensuality."
(d) "Enchantment."

4. What aspect common to children's stories did Frank R. Stockton avoid in his writing?
(a) Archetypes.
(b) Satire.
(c) Moralizing.
(d) Irony.

5. Who wrote about Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger?" in The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical Survey?
(a) Fred Lewis Pattee.
(b) Henry Golemba.
(c) Daniel Defoe.
(d) Henry Vedder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part 5 of the narrative means to take for granted or suppose?

2. How are the galleries of the amphitheater described in the story?

3. How soon after making his decision is the criminal in the arena rewarded or punished?

4. When was "The Lady, or the Tiger?" adapted and produced as a three-act operetta?

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

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