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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative means menacingly wild or savage?

2. How many doors does the criminal face across from him in the arena?

3. Of the king, the narrator says in Part 2 that he "knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than" what?

4. When did Frank R. Stockton live?

5. What is the duty of the person on trial one they enter the arena?

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