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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story did Stockton write that acts as a sequel of sorts to "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
(a) "The Discourager of Hesitancy."
(b) "The Hundredth Man."
(c) "The Captain's Toll-Gate."
(d) "The Bee-Man of Orn."

2. What does the word "hitch" mean in the narrative?
(a) A constable.
(b) A state of worry.
(c) A public stage.
(d) An obstacle or setback.

3. How are the doors that the criminal must choose from described in the narrative?
(a) Exactly alike.
(b) Blue and red.
(c) White and black.
(d) Round and square.

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

5. What word from the narrative means certain to happen or a situation that is unavoidable?
(a) Culpable.
(b) Didier.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Undetermined.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of the criminal facing trial in the arena, the narrator says that he is subject to no guidance "but that of the aforementioned" what?

3. How are the passages of the amphitheater described in Part 2?

4. What does the word "wend" mean in the narrative?

5. The king's vast amphitheater is described in Part 2 as "an agent of" what?

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