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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What artistic movement influenced Frank R. Stockton and other authors during his time period?
(a) The Cubists.
(b) The Dadaists.
(c) The Pre-Raphaelites.
(d) The Modernists.

3. Of the king, it is said in the beginning of the story, "He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into" what?
(a) "Art."
(b) "Paintings."
(c) "Laws."
(d) "Facts."

4. Where are the hired mourners located in the amphitheater when an accused person faces trial?
(a) At the outer rim of the arena.
(b) In the galleries.
(c) Next to the king.
(d) Behind the king.

5. How are the distant neighbors described that helped to polish the king's ideas?
(a) Distant Jewish neighbors.
(b) Distant Greek neighbors.
(c) Distant Latin neighbors.
(d) Distant Mongol neighbors.

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

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

8. How are the galleries of the amphitheater described in the story?
(a) "Encircling."
(b) "Above the stage."
(c) "Below the stage."
(d) "Linear."

9. What literary movement is Frank R. Stockton associated with?
(a) The Dadaists.
(b) The Absurdists.
(c) The Beat generation.
(d) The American humorists.

10. What children's magazine was Frank R. Stockton editor of?
(a) The Riverside Magazine.
(b) Hearth and Home.
(c) Time magazine.
(d) St. Nicholas.

11. The king's vast amphitheater is described in Part 2 as "an agent of" what?
(a) "Poetic justice."
(b) "Cruel fate."
(c) "Change."
(d) "Evolution."

12. The narrator says in Part 2 of the story that the king's arena was built "for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop" what?
(a) "The immigration of the people."
(b) "The mental energies of the people."
(c) "The talents of the people."
(d) "The logic and justice of the people."

13. What pleases the king the most, according to the narrative in the beginning of the story?
(a) "To remind his citizens of his warmth and generosity."
(b) "To make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places."
(c) "To incur upon his community a sense of love, peace, and justice."
(d) "To uphold justice by the methods delivered him by the great gods."

14. How are the king's "subjects refined and cultured," according to the narrator?
(a) "By displays of musical talent and performance."
(b) "By a panel of judges chosen from the populace."
(c) "By a determination of the logic of the crime."
(d) "By exhibitions of manly and beastly valor."

15. With what genre is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" associated?
(a) Nonfiction.
(b) Horror.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Science fiction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How would you describe the language in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

3. What word from the narrative means fair and just?

4. What style does "The Lady, or the Tiger?" mimic?

5. What word from the short story means uncivilized or primitive?

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