Which statement explains what the young man's
choice reveals about his character?
Read the passage from "The Lady, or the Tiger."
When her lover turned and looked at her, and his eye
met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than any
one in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her, he
saw, by that power of quick perception which is given
to those whose souls are one, that she knew behind
which door crouched the tiger, and behind which stood
the lady... Then it was that his quick and anxious
glance asked the question: "Which?"... She raised her
hand, and made a slight, quick movement toward the
right. No one but her lover saw her. Every eye but his
was fixed on the man in the arena... He turned, and
with a firm and rapid step he walked across the empty
space. Every heart stopped beating, every breath was
held, every eye was fixed immovably upon that man
Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on
the right, and opened it.
O He does not fear whatever awaits him behind tr
doors.
O He trusts his lover, the princess, completely.
O He loves the young woman behind the door, not
princess.
He plans to escape from the amphitheater before
the door opens.