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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "The Lady, or the Tiger?" first published?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1876.

2. In an analysis of Stockton's cosmic metaphors in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" from The Dictionary of Literary Biography, what does the courtier represent?
(a) Passion.
(b) Ambition.
(c) The royal court.
(d) An everyman figure.

3. What word from the story refers to doubt or unpredictability?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Incorrigible.
(d) Luminosity.

4. Of the king, it is said in the beginning of the story, "He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into" what?
(a) "Facts."
(b) "Laws."
(c) "Paintings."
(d) "Art."

5. What word from the narrative means to come into opposition?
(a) Absorb.
(b) Interfere.
(c) Regulate.
(d) Propel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the word "florid" from the narrative defined?

2. The narrator states in Part 5 for the reader to consider the question not from his own perspective but from whose?

3. Who gives the signal for the condemned to step into the arena?

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

5. What is described behind one of the doors in Part 2 of the narrative?

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