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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe the narrator's point of view?
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) Limited.
(d) Collectivist.

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

3. What does "barbarism" in the narrative most closely reflect?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Masochism.
(d) Passion.

4. When did Frank R. Stockton live?
(a) 1840-1915.
(b) 1834-1902.
(c) 1820-1899.
(d) 1759-1815.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What style does "The Lady, or the Tiger?" mimic?

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?"

(see the answer key)

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