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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Parable.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Proscenium.
(d) Antagonist.

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

3. How is the king's demeanor described when "some of his orbs got out of their orbits" in the beginning of the story?
(a) "Blander and more genial."
(b) "Obtuse and angry."
(c) "Flustered and anxious."
(d) "Controlling and dominant."

4. What does the word "untrammelled" from the story mean?
(a) Unrestrained.
(b) Wary.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Popular.

5. What literary term refers to the background information provided by the author in the beginning of the story?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Rising action.
(c) Climax.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "barbarism" in the narrative most closely reflect?

2. How would you describe the narrator's point of view?

3. In what tense is the story related?

4. What pleases the king the most, according to the narrative in the beginning of the story?

5. Of the king, it is said in the beginning of the story, "He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into" what?

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