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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 would best characterize the way Hedda greets Julle?
(a) Loving and warm.
(b) Appreciative and obliging.
(c) Cool and formal.
(d) Excited and enthusiastic.

2. What was Hedda's life like before she married?
(a) She was a school teacher.
(b) She was the beautiful daughter of a poor family.
(c) She was the heiress to a large fortune.
(d) She was the popular daughter of a general.

3. Which of the following best characterizes Hedda's feelings towards Mrs Elvsted?
(a) Jealousy and disdain.
(b) Concern and honesty.
(c) Kindness and friendship.
(d) Respect and fear.

4. What kind of friends were Mrs Elvsted and Hedda in school?
(a) They were seperated by a year, and Mrs Elvsted was frightened of Hedda.
(b) They had some good friends in common and so they saw a lot of each other.
(c) They were classmates that spent a lot of time on school work together.
(d) They were inseperable best friends.

5. What does Hedda dream of convincing Tesman to do?
(a) Get his book published.
(b) Become more fashionable.
(c) Move to the country.
(d) Go into politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which answer best describes Tesman's perception of Hedda?

2. What was the basis of the close friendship shared by Lovborg and Mrs Elvsted?

3. Why does Hedda tell Brack is the reason she told Tesman she wanted to live in this particular house?

4. When Julle leaves at the end of Act 1, what are her plans for returning?

5. What does Hedda complain about just after greeting Julle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the only thing that Mrs. Elvsted knows about the woman from Lovborg's past?

2. What does Hedda mean at the end of Act 2 when she tells Mrs. Elvsted that at ten o'clock Lovborg will return "with vine leaves in his hair"?

3. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted when he sees her the morning after the party at Brack's?

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 What does Tesman say about the unpublished manuscript that Lovborg read to him at Brack's party?

5. What do Tesman and Hedda discuss at the end of Act 1 of HEDDA GABLER that causes severe disappointment to Hedda?

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

7. What reason does Hedda give Tesman for burning the manuscript?

8. What worry of Tesman's does Lovborg quickly alleviate?

9. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted he did with the manuscript? Why does he tell her this?

10. What leverage does Brack acquire over Hedda?

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