Which of the following would be considered the turning point of this story?A banker and the lawyer get into an argument over capital punishment.  The banker condones it, while the lawyer says life in prison would be a more fitting punishment.  This leads the banker to bet that the banker could not last even 15 years alone in prison.  So, the banker wages 2 million rubles against 15 years of the lawyer's life in his garden house, a simulation of life in prison.In the first few years in his garden house prison, the lawyer reads, plays piano, and drinks.  Meanwhile, the banker plots to kill the lawyer a day before the bet is over and blame the murder on the the watchman.When the fifteen years is up, and just as the banker intends to kill the lawyer, he sees him asleep with a letter at his table.  The letter says that the lawyer renounces humanity and intends to leave the garden house minutes before the bet is over and, therefore, lose the bet.  Blindsided, the banker refuses to murder the lawyer and, henceforth, no one wins the bet.When he awakes, the lawyer indeed leaves minutes before he cashes in on the two million rubles. Later, the banker puts the letter in a safe.  Does he do this to prevent himself for being implicated in a crime (reneging on the bet)?  Or, does he value the letter more dearly than money?  In other words, does the bet teach both the banker and the lawyer to renounce vanity and materialism and to value human relationships?Question 13Select one:a.The banker finds and reads the letter.b.The banker puts the letter in a safe.c.The lawyer reads, plays piano, and drinks.  d.The banker wages 2 million rubles on the bet.Clear my choiceQuestion 14Not yet answeredFlag questionTipsQuestion textWhich of these sentences uses concise diction?Question 14Select one:a.Mrs. Moore had a discussion about rhetorical analysis with the class in school.b.Mrs. Moore conversed about rhetorical analysis in front of her entire class. c.Mrs. Moore discussed rhetorical analysis with the class. Clear my choiceQuestion 15Not yet answeredFlag questionTipsQuestion textIn Great Expectations, what was Pip's great expectation for his 21st birthday?Question 15Select one:a.Estella would agree to marry him.b.His benefactor would make her/himself known to Pip.c.Miss Havisham would give him more money.d.He would finally get a job.

"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. In the story, the banker finds it impossible to respect the terms of the bet because he had fallen on difficult days due to his own erroneous behaviors.9Mark for ReviewMCQABCWhich quotation from "The Bet" most effectively illustrates the claim?A"The banker recalled all this, and thought: 'To-morrow at twelve o’clock he receives his freedom. Under the agreement, I shall have to pay him two millions. If I pay, it’s all over with me. I am ruined for ever ...'"B"'Poor devil,' thought the banker, 'he’s asleep and probably seeing millions in his dreams. I have only to take and throw this half-dead thing on the bed, smother him a moment with the pillow, and the most careful examination will find no trace of unnatural death.'"CFor fifteen years I have diligently studied earthly life. True, I saw neither the earth nor the people, but in your books I drank fragrant wine, sang songs, hunted deer and wild boar in the forests, loved women... And beautiful women, like clouds ethereal, created by the magic of your poets’ genius, visited me by night and whispered to me wonderful tales, which made my head drunken."D"Gambling on the Stock-Exchange, risky speculation, and the recklessness of which he could not rid himself even in old age, had gradually brought his business to decay; and the fearless, self-confident, proud man of business had become an ordinary banker, trembling at every rise and fall in the market."

Read the excerpt from "The Bet" by Anton Chekov and answer the question.[1] It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life. "I don't agree with you," said their host the banker. "I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life. Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?"[2] "Both are equally immoral," observed one of the guests, "for they both have the same object—to take away life. The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."[3] Among the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-twenty. When he was asked his opinion, he said:[4] "The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, I would certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all."[5] A lively discussion arose. The banker, who was younger and more nervous in those days, was suddenly carried away by excitement; he struck the table with his fist and shouted at the young man:[6] "It's not true! I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years."[7] "If you mean that in earnest," said the young man, "I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years."[8] "Fifteen? Done!" cried the banker. "Gentlemen, I stake two million!"How does the author create tension in the excerpt? aBy describing a dream sequence that shows who the lawyer dreams will win the bet bBy flashing forward to show what happens to the banker at the end of the bet cBy providing a resolution that shows who won the bet fifteen years later dBy using a flashback to show the bet that was made fifteen years earlier

The ______ believes that he would prefer a life sentence to the death penalty.2 pointsLawyerPoliticianActorBanker

The Prisoners’ Dilemma is so named becauseGroup of answer choicesthe Nash equilibrium is one of the worst outcomes for the players.the game has no Nash equilibriumthe game is zero-sumplayers end up earning a lighter sentence than the prosecutor would like.

Which of the following would most likely happen under the Code of Hammurabi?A slave is allowed to sue his master for treating him poorly and not paying him wages.A man is allowed to divorce his wife for a very trivial reason, such as for burning his food.A landowner who is in debt to the government has his debt discharged after a flood destroys his land.A nobleman knocks out another nobleman’s tooth, and he is punished by having his own tooth knocked out.