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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used in the narrative to describe a person who engaged in fights in a public arena?
(a) Dignitary.
(b) Creationist.
(c) Gladiator.
(d) Cultivator.

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

3. What major theme of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is established in the beginning of the story?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Passion.
(d) Revenge.

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

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

6. What does the word "wend" mean in the narrative?
(a) To compose.
(b) To sing.
(c) To go or leave.
(d) To write.

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

8. What is described behind one of the doors in Part 2 of the narrative?
(a) A jester.
(b) The king.
(c) A judge.
(d) A tiger.

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

10. What literary word refers to a typical example of a certain person or thing, such as the characters in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Proscenium.
(d) Parable.

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

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

13. What aspect common to children's stories did Frank R. Stockton avoid in his writing?
(a) Moralizing.
(b) Irony.
(c) Archetypes.
(d) Satire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the short story means uncivilized or primitive?

2. How are the vaults of the amphitheater described?

3. What literary term refers to the background information provided by the author in the beginning of the story?

4. How are the iron bells described that ring if the criminal is killed in the arena?

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

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