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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 word from Part 4 of the story refers to having a sense of the beautiful?

2. What word from the story refers to the assembling or people?

3. What word from Part 4 of the story refers to a formal and authoritative order?

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

5. How soon after making his decision is the criminal in the arena rewarded or punished?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What secrets had the princess uncovered prior to the courtier's trial at the arena?

5. How do the king's subjects feel about the system enacted at the king's arena?

6. How would you compare the tribunals in the king's arena to those in Ancient Rome?

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

8. What happens when the king discovers his daughter's love affair?

9. What theme is predominant in Part 4 of the story?

10. What does the narrator say in regards to if the accused man in the arena does not want his reward?

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

Describe and discuss the king's arena. How large is the arena? Upon what historical structure(s) is the arena based? Where do the attendees of trials at the arena gather? What do you think the arena represents symbolically or metaphorically in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the narrative style of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" From what perspective is the story related? Is the narrative related in the present or past tense? Is the narrator's perspective omniscient or limited? What impact do each of these choices have on the work?

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