The Bet Short Story

What is the main topic discussed at the dinner party?

• Wealth and debt

• The value of knowledge and experience

• Is life in prison more harsh than capital punishment.

• Treat others as you want to be treated

What is one way the banker change from the beginning of the story to the end?

• He is very wealthy and confident in the beginning, then he has lost his fortune and pride by the end.

• His time in isolation has made him lose his mind.

• He has gotten much older by the end.

• He is happy and rich at the beginning and becomes angry and resentful at the end.

What is one way the lawyer has changed from the beginning of the story to the end?

• He has lost his wealth.

• He is much older by the end of the story.

• He is wealthier after winning the bet.

• He no longer values money, or winning the bet.

One possible theme of Chekhov's short story could be...

• Being right takes a lot of energy.

• Bad decisions are bad decisions.

• Knowledge and Experience are more valuable than money.

• Greed can lead to negative consequences.

Why did the lawyer renounce the money and leave a few hours shy of winning the bet and receiving the two million dollars?

• He read and studied so much that he discovered that the bet was meaningless and the money has no true value.

• He was looking for the banker to call off the bet.

• He fell asleep and lost track of the days. When he woke up, he left.

• He lost track of the days and actually thought he had won.

What does obsolete mean based off the passage:

The guests, among them not a few scholars and journalists, for the most part disapproved of capital punishment. They found it obsolete as a means of punishment, unfitted to a Christian State and immoral. Some of them thought that capital punishment should be replaced universally by life-imprisonment.

• acceptable

• morally correct

• no longer produced or used; out of date.

• justifiable

Which point of view is "The Bet" written in?

• First Person

• Third Person Omniscient

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

What does immoral mean based off the passage:

"Capital punishment and life-imprisonment are equally immoral; but if I were offered the choice between them, I would certainly choose the second. It's better to live somehow than not to live at all."

• ethical

• equal

• acceptable

• unfair

What is the outcome of “The Bet”?

• The Lawyer takes the money and lives a happy life

• The Banker kills the Lawyer

• The Lawyer has a heart attack and dies in confinement

• The Lawyer leaves before his time is up and rejects the money

How many languages does the lawyer learn?

• 4

• 3

• 8

• 6