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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator remark regarding the unpredictability of the trials at the arena?
(a) It "gave the spectators a sense of tension and fear, and always reminded them to stay in line."
(b) It "brought forth tears of excess for the populace."
(c) It "lent an interest to the occasion which it could not otherwise have attained."
(d) It "gave an apprehension to the audience and a lack of interest."

3. What does the word "fervent" mean in the narrative?
(a) Secular.
(b) Dismal or barren.
(c) Decayed.
(d) Burning or ardent.

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

5. What word from the narrative means ordinary or undistinguished?
(a) Coronary.
(b) Commonplace.
(c) Devolved.
(d) Responsible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "subordinate" mean in the narrative?

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

3. Of the king's viewpoint in Part 4, the narrator says, "No matter how the affair turned out, the youth would be" what?

4. What word from the story refers to a requital according to merits or deserts?

5. How are the galleries of the amphitheater described in the story?

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