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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was "The Lady, or the Tiger?" first published?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The Century magazine.
(c) The New Yorker magazine.
(d) Time magazine.

2. What does the word "semified" from the narrative mean?
(a) Incurred.
(b) Made partial.
(c) Observed.
(d) Coagulated.

3. What word in the text refers to the act of performing of a ceremony?
(a) Solemnize.
(b) Aria.
(c) Oration.
(d) Recitative.

4. What are the two outcomes for the criminal depending on his choice of door in the arena?
(a) To be crowned or married.
(b) To be exiled or hung.
(c) To be devoured or married.
(d) To be knighted or killed.

5. How would you describe the king's method of governing?
(a) Autocratic.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Egalitarian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from the narrative means to come into opposition?

3. How are the king's "subjects refined and cultured," according to the narrator?

4. How is the king's demeanor described when "every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course"?

5. What determines a criminal's innocence or guilt in the arena?

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