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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the narrative means intense devotion or enthusiasm?
(a) Degradation.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Derision.

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

3. The narrator says in Part 4 of the story, "This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as" what?
(a) "A dozen roses."
(b) "His wife."
(c) "His most florid fancies."
(d) "His most sanguine memories."

4. How soon after making his decision is the criminal in the arena rewarded or punished?
(a) Immediately.
(b) After one day.
(c) After two days.
(d) After a week.

5. Where in relation to the twin doors does the king sit in the arena?
(a) Across from the doors.
(b) Above the doors.
(c) Behind the doors.
(d) Below the doors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the masses respond to the appearance of the courtier in the arena in Part 4 of the story?

2. Which door does the princess signal the courtier to in the arena?

3. How are the bells described if the criminal is found innocent in the arena?

4. What word from Part 4 of the story refers to having a sense of the beautiful?

5. What do the dancing maidens enter the arena with if the criminal is proven innocent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the positive aspects of the king's decision to put the courtier to trial?

2. How is the unpredictability of the arena described in Part 3 of the narrative?

3. What does the narrator mean by saying that the decisions of the king's tribunal "were positively determinate"?

4. What is the crime that the courtier is charged with?

5. How do the king's subjects feel about the system enacted at the king's arena?

6. How does irony apply to the trial of the courtier in the king's arena?

7. How is the princess's lover described when his character is introduced in Part 4?

8. What is described as standing behind the second door in the narrator's hypothetical trial in Part 3?

9. What happens when the king discovers his daughter's love affair?

10. How does the narrator describe the king's method of administering justice in Part 3?

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