Quote Analysis: "The Lady, or the Tiger"

Which choice does this quote support?

"This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own."

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which choice does this quote support?

"This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave  and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong."

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which choice does this quote support?

"He had loved the princess, and neither he, she, nor any one else, thought of denying the fact"

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

Which choice does this quote support?

"His eyes were fixed upon the princess, who sat to the right of her father. Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature it is probable that lady would not have been there, but her intense and fervid soul would not allow her to be absent on an occasion in which she was so terribly interested."

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which choice does this quote support?

"She knew in which of the two rooms, that lay behind those doors, stood the cage of the tiger, with its open front, and in which waited the lady."

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which choice does this quote support?

"Often had she seen, or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon  her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were  returned. Now and then she had seen them talking together; it was but for a moment or two, but much can be said in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics, but how could she know that?"

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which choice does this quote support?

"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 that silent door."

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which choice does this quote support?

"How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!"

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which choice does this quote support?

"But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How  she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!"

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which choice does this quote suggest?

"Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?"

• The Lady

• The Tiger

• Both/Either

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3