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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word in the story refers to a nuptial ode?
(a) Cantata.
(b) Aria.
(c) Proscenium.
(d) Epithalamium.

3. How many doors does the criminal face across from him in the arena?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

4. How are the distant neighbors described that helped to polish the king's ideas?
(a) Distant Latin neighbors.
(b) Distant Greek neighbors.
(c) Distant Mongol neighbors.
(d) Distant Jewish neighbors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the feelings of the king's subjects in regard to the trials at the arena?

2. What word from the story refers to doubt or unpredictability?

3. How would you describe the language in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

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

5. The narrator says what of "the judgments of the king's arena" in Part 3?

(see the answer key)

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