Write 2-3 sentences on what door the princess ordered the man through in The Land and the Tiger.

The man chooses the door to the right. He thinks that she will attempt to trick him because of her jealousy, so she thinks he will choose the left door where the tiger lies, but this is not the case.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)