Emporer's New Clothes Interpretive Questions

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Choose any four of the following questions to answer.

1. Why are the swindlers successful?

2. Why is it a little child who first says what everyone else is only thinking?

3. Why do people repeat what the child said, rather than deny it?

4. Why do people whisper that the Emperor has no clothes on before they shout it out?

5. Why does the Emperor decorate the swindlers and make them knights?

6. Why are we told immediately that the two weavers are really swindlers?

7. Why does the Emperor send “two nice old officials” to see how the weaving is coming along?

8. Why does the author make the townspeople eager to know if their neighbors have faults, but not eager to test themselves?

9. Why does the Emperor go through with the procession even after the people have cried out that he has no clothes on?

10. Why doesn’t the Emperor know immediately that the people are right when they shout that he has no clothes on?

11. Why is someone who has many clothes seen at the end of the story without any clothes on at all?

An interpretive question has more than one possible answer, and each answer is supported from the story. Your job is to write two completely different answers to each of the questions you choose to answer, and you must use information in the story to prove your two answers.

Use RARE to answer the questions.