Vocabulary
What is Capital Punishment
This adjective means "based on or producing an illusion; deceptive."
What is "illusory."
This verb means "to cause someone to become very thin."
What is "emaciate."
This literary device is being used in the beginning of the story when the old banker is remembering a dinner party from 15 years earlier.
What is "a flashback."
How many years does the banker INITIALLY dare the lawyer to stay in confinement?
What is 5 years.
This word means "excessive pride, arrogance."
What is hubris.
The adjective means "pretty, attractive."
What is "comely."
This adjective means "required; mandatory."
What is "compulsory."
What topic of conversation comes up among the group of "intellectuals" at the banker's dinner party?
What is capital punishment (death penalty) and/or life in prison.
Putting his proverbial foot in his mouth, the lawyer says he can last this long in confinement?
What is 15 years.
This word means "a feeling that someone or something is not worthy of respect or approval." The lawyer felt this way about his 25 year-old self.
What is "contempt."
This adjective means "going against what is right, proper, or good."
What is "immoral."
This noun means "the study of religious faith, practice, and experience."
What is "theology."
What punishment does the banker think more humane?
What is capital punishment.
The lawyer does what at the last moment?
What is intentionally throws the bet by escaping early to prove he despises material wealth, instead valuing spiritual wealth and knowledge.
This adjective means "having sympathy and compassion for other people."
What is "humane."
This adjective means "of or relating to the heavens."
What is "ethereal."
This noun means "a sudden, unpredictable action."
What is "caprice."
What punishment does the lawyer think more humane and would choose, given the choice?
What is life in prison.
Where does the banker place the letter from the lawyer, which stated his intention to throw the bet?
What is in a fireproof safe.
This Latin phrase refers to knowledge that does not come from actual experience but rather from deduction, logic, or theoretical reasoning
What is "a priori."
This adjective means "not serious in attitude or behavior; not able to think ahead."
What is "frivolous."
This noun means "something of little value, substance, or importance."
What is a "trifle."
How many languages does the lawyer teach himself?
What is 6.
Why was the banker on his way to visit his prisoner on the night he finds the letter?
What is to kill him so as not to become poor and destitute.