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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In an analysis of Stockton's cosmic metaphors in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" from The Dictionary of Literary Biography, what does the arena represent?
(a) Virtue.
(b) A court of law.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

2. In what tense is the story related?
(a) Future tense.
(b) Present tense.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Passive future tense.

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

4. What does the courtier know immediately when he meets eyes with the princess in the arena?
(a) That she has gone through with her plan to kill her father.
(b) That she is willing to die for him.
(c) That she will exile herself and wait for him in another kingdom.
(d) That she knows which door contains the tiger and which contains the lady.

5. What is the king said to be greatly given to in the beginning of the story?
(a) Holding seminars.
(b) Self-communing.
(c) Consulting his cabinet.
(d) Adorning his wife with jewels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative means intense devotion or enthusiasm?

2. What does the word "subordinate" mean in the narrative?

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

4. Of the king, the narrator says in Part 2 that he "knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than" what?

5. What is revealed about the princess's nature in Part 4 of the narrative as she sits in the arena?

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