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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "determinate" mean in the narrative?

2. What does the word "suitable" mean in the narrative?

3. How are the bells described if the criminal is found innocent in the arena?

4. Of the king's viewpoint in Part 4, the narrator says, "No matter how the affair turned out, the youth would be" what?

5. What word in the text refers to the act of performing of a ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the priest in the story represent symbolically?

2. How would you compare the king's tribunal with our contemporary justice system?

3. What is described as standing behind the second door in the narrator's hypothetical trial in Part 3?

4. What does the lady behind the door symbolize in the story?

5. How does irony apply to the trial of the courtier in the king's arena?

6. What are the positive aspects of the king's decision to put the courtier to trial?

7. How does the narrator "set the scene" on the day of the courtier's trial?

8. What does the narrator mean by saying that the decisions of the king's tribunal "were positively determinate"?

9. What is the crime that the courtier is charged with?

10. How is the ceremony described if the hypothetical accused man should open the door proving his innocence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the role of the lady in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" Where in the arena does the lady await her fate? How is the lady chosen? What does the lady represent symbolically in the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of the courtier in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" How does the love affair between the princess and the courtier begin? How long does the love affair last before the king discovers it? How are the courtier's appearance and demeanor described?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the doors of the arena. What is behind each door that the accused must choose from? How does the narrator describe the appearance of the doors? Where in the arena are the doors located?

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