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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the king's demeanor described when "every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course"?
(a) "Bland and genial."
(b) "Quiet and sullen."
(c) "Angry and disposed."
(d) "Reactionary."

3. 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) Demonstration.
(c) Propriety.
(d) Apostate.

4. What artistic movement influenced Frank R. Stockton and other authors during his time period?
(a) The Pre-Raphaelites.
(b) The Cubists.
(c) The Dadaists.
(d) The Modernists.

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

6. What pleases the king the most, according to the narrative in the beginning of the story?
(a) "To uphold justice by the methods delivered him by the great gods."
(b) "To remind his citizens of his warmth and generosity."
(c) "To incur upon his community a sense of love, peace, and justice."
(d) "To make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places."

7. What word from the beginning of the novel means uninhibitedly enthusiastic?
(a) Dynamic.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Detrimental.
(d) Metaphorical.

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

9. Of the king, the narrator says in Part 2 that he "knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than" what?
(a) "The laws of God."
(b) "That of the guillotine."
(c) "Involved his family."
(d) "Pleased his fancy."

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

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

12. How are the doors that the criminal must choose from described in the narrative?
(a) Exactly alike.
(b) Round and square.
(c) White and black.
(d) Blue and red.

13. What word from the narrative refers to a tissue inserted into another tissue?
(a) Devolved.
(b) Progressed.
(c) Ingrafted.
(d) Incurred.

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

15. What children's magazine was Frank R. Stockton editor of?
(a) The Riverside Magazine.
(b) Time magazine.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) Hearth and Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the distant neighbors described that helped to polish the king's ideas?

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

3. What aspect common to children's stories did Frank R. Stockton avoid in his writing?

4. Of the criminal facing trial in the arena, the narrator says that he is subject to no guidance "but that of the aforementioned" what?

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

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