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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act II Scene 1?
(a) Peter Stockman's residence.
(b) Captain Horster's house.
(c) Tom Stockmann's residence.
(d) The editorial office of the People's Daily Messenger.

2. As Peter speaks in Act II Scene 2, a man in the crowd shouts that Tom should be what?
(a) Made the mayor.
(b) Run out of town.
(c) Hanged.
(d) Lynched.

3. In Act II Scene 1, Billing suggests to Hovstad that they seek the support of Tom to do what?
(a) Start a new town.
(b) Back a newspaper.
(c) Test the water again.
(d) Take on the mayor.

4. What refers to a government by the people or their elected representatives?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Dictatorship.

5. In Act II Scene 1, Aslaksen refuses to print the report as a what?
(a) Special edition.
(b) Pamphlet.
(c) Scientific conclusion.
(d) Trilogy.

6. What word means thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms?
(a) Rebel.
(b) Radical.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Conservative.

7. What refers to a person authorized to examine publications, theatrical presentations, films, letters, etc, in order to suppress in whole or part those considered obscene or politically unacceptable?
(a) Author.
(b) Editor.
(c) Censor.
(d) Publisher.

8. Only the town drunk and who vote against declaring Tom an enemy of the people in Act II Scene 2?
(a) Mr. Aslaksen.
(b) Mr. Hovstad.
(c) Captain Horster.
(d) Mr. Billing.

9. In the beginning of Act II Scene 1, Hovstad tells Billing to lower his voice because who is in earshot?
(a) Aslaksen.
(b) Tom Stockmann.
(c) Peter Stockmann.
(d) Petra Stockmann.

10. What compromise does Tom reach when reading the report at the gathering in Act II Scene 2?
(a) To not refer to the Institute by name.
(b) To talk for only ten minutes.
(c) To not offend anyone.
(d) To talk softly.

11. In Act II Scene 1, Peter points out to Aslaksen that the community will be what if the water system is dismantled and rebuilt?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Taxed.
(c) Booming.
(d) Overworked.

12. In Act II Scene 2, Peter promises that if the springs are allowed to remain as they are, within how many years everyone in town will be wealthier, schools will be improved, the population will grow?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

13. Tom claims in Act II Scene 2 that he stands against the conventional wisdom that the majority is what?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) The weakest.
(c) Strongest.
(d) Always right.

14. What relative of Tom Stockmann's is exceptionally wealthy?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Petra.
(c) Mr. Kill.
(d) Margaret.

15. When he enters in Act II Scene 1, Peter demands to see the report, promising to help with what?
(a) The editing.
(b) The spelling.
(c) The distribution.
(d) The labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catherine asks Billing in Act II Scene 2 why he printed whose editorial instead of the report?

2. Who suggests that Tom act with moderation in Act II Scene 1 when Tom tells Hovstad that Peter has declared war?

3. Given little other options, in the end of Act II Scene 1, Tom vows to do what to spread the truth about the water system?

4. Who is the first person who enters as the captain is tidying up in Act II Scene 2?

5. Hovstad is suddenly torn in Act II Scene 1 and entertains the idea that perhaps Tom is what?

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