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Q 1/20
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When the author states that the king “was greatly given to self-communing,” what does this say about the way he rules?
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The king advises to those around him how his decisions are based on the good for all.
The king follows his own counsel, and does not rely on the democratic process.
The king's selfishness is the cornerstone for the law concerning only those closest to him.
The king limits himself to making decisions that benefits him only.
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How does the author show that the king is semi-barbaric?
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The king's profound mindset identifies how he really desires to see harm come to those he loves.
The king demonstrates his progressive side by his use of the public arena, in which “the minds of his subjects were refined and cultured.”
His unethical instructions to the princess claims his willful sensation to humiliate the citizens of his area.
The king challenges the authority of those around him to the extent of their death.
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When the author states that the king “was greatly given to self-communing,” what does this say about the way he rules?
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How does the author show that the king is semi-barbaric?
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Which conflict determined the lover’s outcome?
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"The only hope for the youth in which there was any element of certainty was based upon the success of the princess in discovering this mystery." This passage is an example
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Which statement best expresses the main idea of the story?
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What is the author's purpose in writing this story?
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The main conflict in the story is about which door the princess will choose. Which of the following details contributes most to this conflict?
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The princess makes a decision about telling the young man which door to open. Her decision process is an example of
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“The girl was lovely, but she had dared to raise her eyes to the loved one of the princess; and, with all the intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind the silent door.” This passage creates the princess as
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No matter how the affair turned out, the youth would be disposed of; and the king would take an aesthetic pleasure in watching the course of events. This passage shows
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“…her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have him?” This passage allows the reader to understand
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The question of her decision is one not to be lightly considered, and it is not for me to set myself up as the one person able to answer it. And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door,--the lady, or the tiger? This last paragraph of the story is ironic because
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The decisions of this tribunal were not only fair, they were positively determinate: the accused person was instantly punished if he found himself guilty, and, if innocent, he was rewarded on the spot, whether he liked it or not. There was no escape from the judgments of the king's arena. This passage is ironic because
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The arena of the king...with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance. This passage is significant because it shows
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''He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.'' This verbal irony
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The question of her decision is one not to be lightly considered, and it is not for me to presume to set myself up as the one person able to answer it. And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door — the lady, or the tiger? What point does the narrator stop to make about the princess’s decision?
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“The more we reflect upon this question, the harder it is to answer. It involves a study of the human heart which leads us through devious mazes of passion” This quote best supports which theme to the story?
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How did the princess find out the secret of was behind each of the doors?
