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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote about Frank R. Stockton in The Dictionary of Literary Biography?
(a) Henry Golemba.
(b) Henry Vedder.
(c) Fred Lewis Pattee.
(d) Daniel Defoe.

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

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

4. What word from Part 4 of the story refers to having a sense of the beautiful?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Culinary.
(c) Mundane.
(d) Arbitrary.

5. What word from the narrative means certain to happen or a situation that is unavoidable?
(a) Culpable.
(b) Undetermined.
(c) Didier.
(d) Inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the feelings of the king's subjects in regard to the trials at the arena?

2. At what point in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" does the climax occur?

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

4. What do the hired mourners do if the criminal on trial is killed?

5. What does the word "moiety" from the narrative mean?

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