Figures of Speech — Unit test

Question 6 • ELPGEQ3 M/J Language Arts 3 - 1001070 HCPS v24

Which sentence from "The Lady, or the Tiger” best paraphrases the main question, "Is it the lady or the tiger?”

Answer

Thus, the masses were entertained and pleased, and the thinking part of the community could bring no charge of unfairness against this plan, for did not the accused person have the whole matter in his own hands?

Now and then she had seen them talking together; it was but for a moment or two, but much can be said in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics, but how could she know that?

Then it was that his quick and anxious glance asked the question: "Which?"

Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?

Explanation

The main question, “Is it the lady or the tiger?” asks which of the two outcomes is behind the chosen door. Choice C says the young man’s glance asked, “Which?”—a direct paraphrase of that uncertainty. The other choices discuss the justice of the arena, the princess’s suspicions, or the possibility of death.

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