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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What word from the short story means uncivilized or primitive?
(a) Exemplary.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Apostate.
(d) Cultured.

5. 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) "Impartial and incorruptible chance."
(b) "Clues indicated from the masses."
(c) "Riddle depicted by the jester."
(d) "Letter from the king."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what tense is the story related?

2. How are the passages of the amphitheater described in Part 2?

3. How would you describe the king's method of governing?

4. What word from the narrative means certain to happen or a situation that is unavoidable?

5. From what perspective is the narrative related in the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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