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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What theme is introduced in Part 2 of the story?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Romantic love.
(c) Fate.
(d) Family.

3. How are the galleries of the amphitheater described in the story?
(a) "Above the stage."
(b) "Below the stage."
(c) "Encircling."
(d) "Linear."

4. What literary term refers to the background information provided by the author in the beginning of the story?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Climax.
(c) Rising action.
(d) Denouement.

5. The king's vast amphitheater is described in Part 2 as "an agent of" what?
(a) "Change."
(b) "Evolution."
(c) "Cruel fate."
(d) "Poetic justice."

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

7. 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) "Laws."
(b) "Facts."
(c) "Art."
(d) "Paintings."

8. What word from the narrative means to bring out or to obtain by special means?
(a) Procure.
(b) Compose.
(c) Constrain.
(d) Endure.

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

10. Who gives the signal for the condemned to step into the arena?
(a) The princess.
(b) The king.
(c) The jester.
(d) The judge.

11. What word from the narrative refers to a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most?
(a) Privilege.
(b) Apostate.
(c) Demonstration.
(d) Propriety.

12. Where in the amphitheater does the king sit for the trials of criminals?
(a) In the arena itself.
(b) On a throne on one side of the arena.
(c) In a glass cage overlooking the arena.
(d) In the galleries.

13. Of the criminal facing trial in the arena, the narrator says that he is subject to no guidance "but that of the aforementioned" what?
(a) "Clues indicated from the masses."
(b) "Impartial and incorruptible chance."
(c) "Letter from the king."
(d) "Riddle depicted by the jester."

14. The narrator says in Part 2 of the story that the king's arena was built "for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop" what?
(a) "The mental energies of the people."
(b) "The immigration of the people."
(c) "The talents of the people."
(d) "The logic and justice of the people."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What style does "The Lady, or the Tiger?" mimic?

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

3. Where was Frank R. Stockton from?

4. What is the king said to be greatly given to in the beginning of the story?

5. What children's magazine was Frank R. Stockton editor of?

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