The Lady or the Tiger_Quiz

What theme is revealed through the story?

• Trust leads to death in romantic relationships

• In some situations, the right choice is not easy to find.

• Free will allows people to create the future they want.

• Power enables people to have confidence in their choices.

How is the communication between the princess and her lover significant to the text as a whole?

• It emphasizes the king’s uncivilized motivations

• It reveals the trust the young man has in the princess

• It demonstrates each character’s need for independence.

• It highlights the princess’s internal conflict over her decision.

Which piece of evidence best reveals the lose-lose reality of the king’s arena?

• “This vast amphitheater... in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.” (Paragraph 3)

• “It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection” (Paragraph 6)

• “the accused person was instantly punished if he found himself guilty, and, if innocent, he was rewarded on the spot” (Paragraph 7)

• “Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it.” (Paragraph 18)

How are the first several paragraphs (1-8) important to the text as a whole?

• They build an understanding of the relationship between the king and his daughter.

• They build knowledge of the king’s enemies

• They introduce the rules of the king’s arena.

• They introduce the princess’s forbidden relationship

What effect does the author’s choice to describe the princess as “semi-barbaric” have on the text?

• It reveals a similarity between the princess and her father, giving a clue about her decision.

• It reveals that the princess is not really in love with the man in the arena, hinting at her decision.

• It reveals the ease with which the princess made her decision between the lady or the tiger.

• It reveals the princess’s desire to use the arena’s choices to get revenge against her father.

Why does a life-or-death trial appeal to the king? (select all that apply)

• The king knows his subjects need to see violence so they do not kill him.

• The king enjoys putting people at the mercy of a heartless fate.

• The king really enjoys watching a tiger devour people

• The king uses this cruel spectacle to teach his subjects a lesson

What is the young man’s crime?

• lying to the king

• badmouthing the king to the princess

• loving the princess

• cheating on the princess

Why are his actions considered criminal?

• He didn't put a ring on it.

• The man was already married.

• The princess was engaged to marry someone else.

• His low position in society made him an unworthy suitor.

What does the princess do when the young man is in the arena?

• Gesture toward the right

• Gesture toward the left

• Turns to look away

• Jumps in the arena

What motive does she have for sending him to his death?

• jealousy

• boredom

• bloodlust

• a new man