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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kept Hedda and Tesman up late the night of their return?
(a) They were celebrating the return to their new home.
(b) Hedda needed everything unpacked and put away in a particular manner.
(c) Julle was ill.
(d) Berte was was having a party next door.

2. What does Hedda do when Brack arrives in the beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) HideS Tesman's manuscript.
(b) ShootS at him with her pistol.
(c) Wishes Tesman were at home so she wouldn't have to be alone with Brack.
(d) Expresses her pleasure at being alone with Brack.

3. What does Tesman ask of Hedda in Act 1 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) To show her affection towards him.
(b) To be less distant with Julle.
(c) To help him with his work.
(d) To try and get out in society.

4. What are Mrs Elvsted's plans for the future?
(a) Start formal divorce proceedings.
(b) Stay in town as long as her husband will agree to.
(c) None, other than to be near Ejlert Lovborg.
(d) Write and publish a book of her own.

5. What does Tesman bring home with him in the second act of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) A pile of books for his research.
(b) A bouquet of flowers.
(c) A letter from Mr Elvsted.
(d) A new instrument for Hedda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes Hedda's view of her marriage at the end of Act 1?

2. What are Brack's views on his own marriage prospects?

3. What does Lovborg say about his recently published book?

4. How does Hedda feel about the house she lives in?

5. What role did Ejlert Lovborg play in the Elvsted household prior to the happenings in the play Hedda Gabler?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tesman and Julle are discussing future prospects, they are talking about different things. What does Tesman talk about, and what does Julle talk about?

2. Hedda does two things in Act 1 that make Julle uneasy. What are they, and why did they make Julle uneasy?

3. When Lovborg leaves at the end of Act 3 what does Hedda do? What does she say while she does it?

4. What does Tesman say about the unpublished manuscript that Lovborg read to him at Brack's party?

5. Who was Hedda Gabler before she married Tesman? What was her life like?

6. In Act 1 of Hedda Gabler, Hedda and Tesman have just returned from a trip. Where were they, and what did they do?

7. At the end of Act 1, what is the one thing Hedda says she still has one thing to amuse herself with?

8. When Julle and Tesman discuss Hedda, what do they usually focus on?

9. What is the financial situation of the newly married couple?

10. What does Hedda tell Lovborg that other people may think if Lovborg continued to refuse to drink at all?

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