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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "wend" mean in the narrative?
(a) To compose.
(b) To sing.
(c) To write.
(d) To go or leave.

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

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

4. What word from the narrative refers to the capacity of persons or things to be a compelling force on the behavior or opinions of others?
(a) Courage.
(b) Benediction.
(c) Influence.
(d) Apostate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What literary word refers to a typical example of a certain person or thing, such as the characters in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

3. What is the duty of the person on trial one they enter the arena?

4. Where in the amphitheater does the king sit for the trials of criminals?

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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