Lady or Tiger

Why does the author, Frank Stockton, leave the decision up to the reader at the end of “The Lady or the Tiger?”

• He did not know how to best end the story so he stopped short.

• It doesn’t matter anyway because either way the king wins.

• It is the reader’s job to make all of the decisions in this story.

• He wants the reader to realize whether the princess is noble or barbaric.

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CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the tone of the following passage: “He was greatly given to self-communing; and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done.”

• Mocking

• Solemn

• Indecisive

• Content

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What mood does the setting (the King’s Arena) create in this story?

• Anger and Bitterness

• Fear and Confusion

• Isolation and Hardship

• Danger and Mystery

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why does the princess experience “days and nights of anguished deliberation”?

• She’s anxious to discover the fate of her lover.

• She doesn’t want to disobey her father.

• She’s torn between letting her lover marry someone she hates and leading him to his death.

• She’s fearful of getting caught for signaling her lover to the correct door.

The author reveals to his reader the princess’s fears in the second and third paragraphs on page 6. Choose the answer that best represents her greatest fear in regards to her current situation.

• She was most fearful of her lover getting torn to shreds by the fierce tiger.

• She was most fearful of her lover marrying the maiden she hated.

• She was most fearful of her lover embarrassing her at the King’s Arena.

• She was most fearful that her father would determine her justice in the King’s Arena next.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which detail best supports the fact that the Princess was most fearful of her lover marrying the maiden she hated?

• “How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams had she covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door… [which] waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!

• “But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door!”

• “…when she had heard the glad shouts from the multitude, and the wild ringing of the happy bells”

• “…in which her one despairing shriek was lost and drowned!”

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Which word best describes the king?

• brutal

• obnoxious

• hateful

• ashamed

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which line supports the fact that the king is brutal?

• “He was a man of exuberant fancy…he turned his varied fancies into facts.”

• “When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial…”

• “…she was the apple of his eye and was loved by him above all humanity.”

• “The tiger cages of the kingdom were searched for the most savage and relentless beasts…”

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

Why was the young man on trial?

• He fell in love with the princess

• The princess saw him speaking to the other young lady

• He stole something from the court

• He questioned the king's authority

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What does the young man assume about the princess?

• That she has fallen in love with someone else

• That she will lead him to the door with the tiger

• That she will save his life

• That she is arrogant just like her father