Directions: Choose the appropriate words to complete the following passage. A. appearance B. revealing C. receives D. kindness E. shelter F. curse G. broken H. ignores I. transforming J. judge K. despair L. withers M. disguise N. surroundings O. doomed What happened before the prince was turned into a beast? In the prologue, told through stained glass windows, an old beggar woman arrives at the castle of a French prince. The woman asks for 1) __________from the cold, and in return, offers the young prince a rose. Repulsed by her 2)___________, the prince turns her away. The beggar warns him not to 3) _________by appearances, but the Prince 4) _________her and shuts the door on her. The woman then throws off her 5)__________, 6) __________ that she is a beautiful enchantress. The Prince tries to apologize, but she has already seen the lack of 7) _____________in his heart. She conjures a powerful 8)__________, 9) ____________him into a hideous beast, his servants into anthropomorphic household items, and the entire castle and all its 10) ____________into a dark, forbidding place, so that he will learn not to judge by appearances. The curse can only be 11) __________if the Beast learns to love another and 12) __________the other's love in return before the last petal of the enchantress's rose 13) _________and falls; if not, he will be 14) __________to remain a beast forever. As the years pass, the Beast sits in his castle wallowing in 15)________, convinced that no one could ever love him.