How Did The Princess Find Out Which Door Held The Tiger?

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05.02 Predictions, Questioning, and Context Questions to Answer For each question, answer in one paragraph of at least three to five sentences. Provide at least one example from the text to support each answer. • How did the princess find out which door held the lady and which door held the tiger? The young princess had possessed power and she was able to find out which door held the woman and which held the tiger. She was determined to figure out which one lied behind each door. She found out by paying someone to tell her which held which. “But gold, and the power of a woman’s will, had brought the secret to the princess.” • How did the king feel about the young man who loved his daughter? When the king found out that his daughter had an admirer, he was not very content about it. He decided to take the daughters admirer and throw him into prison, only to be put on trials to receive either death or a wife. “…one day the king happened to discover its existence. [The love affair] He did not hesitate nor waver in regard to his duty in the premises. The youth was immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed for his trail in the king’s arena.” • …show more content…

"Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation." Deliberation in general means, generating deep consideration and thought into a certain subject. However, for the young woman, deliberation consisted of only thoughts. She thought of nothing else but the fate of her admirer, since the decree had been sent forth. In the passage, it states, “From the moment that the decree had gone forth that her lover should decide his fate in the king’s arena, she had thought of nothing else.” • Which came out of the opened door: the lady, or the tiger? (As long as you provide details from the text to support your answer, there is no "right" or "wrong"

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