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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pages is the report?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. Who is convinced that Tom is trying to pull a fast one on his brother and assumes the entire story is a joke in Act I Scene 2?
(a) Mr. Hovstad.
(b) Mr. Aslaksen.
(c) Peter Stockmann.
(d) Mr. Kill.

3. Tom insists that Hovstad wait to print the report in the paper until what in Act I Scene 2?
(a) He talks to Peter.
(b) He informs the city council.
(c) A second sample is tested.
(d) The next day.

4. Who is the assistant editor of The People's Daily Messenger?
(a) Mr. Kill.
(b) Mr. Aslaksen.
(c) Mr. Hovstad.
(d) Mr. Billing.

5. What does Peter say would plummet if the report were to be released in Act I Scene 2?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Outsourcing.
(d) Religion.

6. What did Peter say in his note to Tom in the beginning of Act I Scene 2?
(a) He'd drop by later.
(b) Disregard the findings.
(c) Don't publish the report.
(d) He commissioned his own report.

7. Peter claims in Act I, Scene 1 that while Tom has lots of good ideas, it takes a person like himself to do what?
(a) Filter out the bad ideas.
(b) Put them into action.
(c) Critique them.
(d) Fine tune them.

8. According to Tom, what must be dismantled in order for the population to be safe?
(a) The mill.
(b) The springs.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The tannery.

9. Who is the protagonist in "An Enemy of the People"?
(a) Catherine Stockmann.
(b) Peter Stockmann.
(c) Petra Stockmann.
(d) Tom Stockmann.

10. In Act I Scene 1, Petra remembers that Tom warned the town not to build the Springs downstream from what?
(a) The neighboring town.
(b) A pig farm.
(c) A factory.
(d) The tannery.

11. What is the setting of Act I Scene 1?
(a) The springs.
(b) Tom Stockmann's residence.
(c) The mayor's office.
(d) A church.

12. In Act I Scene 2, when Tom vows to stand up for his findings, Peter warns him that he will see to it that what?
(a) Tom will never be mayor.
(b) Tom is fired from the Institute.
(c) Tom disappears.
(d) Tom is discredited.

13. Catherine is concerned that what will suffer if Tom has a public fight with Peter in Act I Scene 2?
(a) The Institute.
(b) The environment.
(c) The town.
(d) The family.

14. In what year did Arthur Miller's adaptation of "An Enemy of the People" premiere?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1940.

15. After Peter leaves in Act I Scene 2, Catherine reminds Tom that Peter has what?
(a) Courage.
(b) The Mayor's office.
(c) Incredible wealth.
(d) All the power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the newly constructed medicinal bath center just on the outskirts of the town?

2. Tom Stockmann theorizes that the unsafe water that pours into Kirsten Springs originates where?

3. In Act I Scene 2, Hovstad says he sees this situation as his opportunity to keep his word in doing what?

4. In Act I Scene 2, Hovstad refers to the situation as what and plans to portray it as such in the newspaper?

5. From whose original work did Arthur Miller adapt "An Enemy of the People"?

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