The Lady, or the Tiger?
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- Q1The setting of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" takes place in a(n)castle in Franceactual lost civilizationfictional kingdomcity in ancient Rome30s
- Q2The king does NOTenjoy jury trialshate his daughter's loverlike to play with people's liveshave absolute power30s
- Q3Acording to the king's system of justice, each prisoner has toopen one of two doorsdie for his crimesfight a vicious tigerconfess or be killed30s
- Q4A person's guilt or innocence is decided byhis or her own choicea military tribunala royal courta king's daughter30s
- Q5The king's daughter ispassiveempatheticcuriousjealous30s
- Q6The king's daughter knowsthe combination of the lockwhich door is whichwhere to find an underground tunnelof the prisoner's plans to escape30s
- Q7The king's daughter knows that the lady isquite uglyfirece competitionher oldest frienda foreigner30s
- Q8The young man "knew in his soul" that his lover wouldbeg the king for mercyturn her back on himmarry someone elsetell him which door to pick30s
- Q9The king's daughter might point to the "tiger's" door because sheis flustered and confused under pressureknows her lover will be killed anywaythinks her lover will be better dead than married to anotherhopes to please her father and inherit the kingdom30s
- Q10What happens at the end?the lover chooses the tigerthe king's daughter saves his lifeIt's up to us to decidewe find out which door held the tiger30s
- Q11Which of the following is NOT an example of verbal irony?It was a duty and privilege of the person on trial to open one of the doorsThe king refuses to let the facts interfere with the principles of justicethe narrator comments on the "perfect fairness" of the king's justice systemThe tiger was the fiercest and most cruel that could be found30s
- Q12The ending is ambigious because we don't knowwhat the king's daughter decides to dothe identity of the lady behind the doorwhat the imprisoned man is thinkingwhether the king will show mercy30s
- Q13The author uses irony tohelp us identify with the charactersencourgae the reader to thinktell us what might happen nextconfuse the reader30s
- Q14The king believed that chance was completely fair andexuberantimpartialdireretribution30s
- Q15The king imprisoned the man as __________ for the horrible crime he had commitedretributionexuberantimpartialdeliberation30s