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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the duty of the person on trial one they enter the arena?
(a) To prove one's innocence through logic.
(b) To choose a door and open it.
(c) To beg for mercy from the court.
(d) To perform a musical display.

2. What word from the narrative refers to an epic poem or an instrumental composition?
(a) Rhapsody.
(b) Delineation.
(c) Apostasy.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. How is the word "florid" from the narrative defined?
(a) Negative.
(b) Decayed.
(c) Showy.
(d) Cultured.

5. How are the iron bells described that ring if the criminal is killed in the arena?
(a) Incorrigible.
(b) Valiant.
(c) Merry.
(d) Doleful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the king's demeanor described when "some of his orbs got out of their orbits" in the beginning of the story?

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

3. How is the king's demeanor described when "every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course"?

4. What word from the narrative means causing or involving great fear or suffering?

5. What does "barbarism" in the narrative most closely reflect?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the king's allegiances in Part 2 of the story?

2. Upon what historial structure(s) is the king's arena based?

3. In what ways is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" like a fairy tale?

4. How can the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites be seen in Stockton's work?

5. What does the tiger represent symbolically in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

6. How is the narrative in the beginning of the story related?

7. What historical allusions does the author make in Part 1 of the story?

8. What does the king represent symbolically or metaphorically in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

9. How does the king respond when things go his way or do not, according to the narrator in Part 1?

10. Where are the attendees of the tribunals at the king's arena located within the amphitheater?

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