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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the passages of the amphitheater described in Part 2?
(a) "Visible."
(b) "Glass-walled."
(c) "Unseen."
(d) "Steel-walled."

2. What is described behind one of the doors in Part 2 of the narrative?
(a) The king.
(b) A jester.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A judge.

3. How is the king's demeanor described when "every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course"?
(a) "Angry and disposed."
(b) "Quiet and sullen."
(c) "Reactionary."
(d) "Bland and genial."

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

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?"
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Parable.
(d) Proscenium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative means fair and just?

2. How did author Frank R. Stockton support himself before his work as an author?

3. What word from the narrative means certain to happen or a situation that is unavoidable?

4. What do the hired mourners do if the criminal on trial is killed?

5. How does the narrator describe the audience in the case where a criminal is killed in the arena?

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