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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who suggests that Tom be considered an enemy of the people in Act II Scene 2?
(a) Captain Horster.
(b) Mr. Hovstad.
(c) Mr. Aslaksen.
(d) Mr. Billing.

3. Who in Act II Scene 1 wants the article limited to the current matter and is not in favor of going after the entire city administration?
(a) Mr. Aslaksen.
(b) Captain Horster.
(c) Mr. Billing.
(d) Mr. Hovstad.

4. What word means that kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense?
(a) Contain.
(b) Suppress.
(c) Dilute.
(d) Moderate.

5. In Act II Scene 1, Catherine lashes out at Hovstad for being what?
(a) A liberal.
(b) Childish.
(c) A conservative.
(d) A fraud.

6. 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) 25.
(d) 20.

7. 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?
(a) Tell everybody at church.
(b) March through town.
(c) Yell from the steps of the Mayor's office.
(d) Publish his own paper.

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. Billing.
(c) Mr. Hovstad.
(d) Captain Horster.

9. When Tom returns in Act II Scene 1, he emphasizes again to Aslaksen that he does not want to be treated like what?
(a) A child.
(b) A king.
(c) A woman.
(d) A hero.

10. In the beginning of Act II Scene 1, Hovstad comments that even who will be rebelling if the Mayor rejects the report that calls for reconstruction of the water supply system?
(a) Aslaksen.
(b) Morten Kill.
(c) Catherine Stockmann.
(d) Captain Horster.

11. When was Galileo born?
(a) 1634.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1564.

12. In his speech in Act II Scene 2, Tom congratulates Hovstad for his what?
(a) Truthfulness.
(b) Haircut.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Opinion.

13. Kirsten Springs Institute is what type of corporation?
(a) Public.
(b) Nonprofit.
(c) Religious.
(d) Private.

14. What refers to someone radically new or innovative who stands for revolt?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Terrorist.
(c) Hippie.
(d) Revolutionist.

15. Peter claims in Act II Scene 2 that he only wants the town to understand that his brother's motive is to ridicule and destroy what?
(a) Authority.
(b) People's lives.
(c) The town.
(d) The springs.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Peter speaks in Act II Scene 2, a man in the crowd shouts that Tom should be what?

2. In the beginning of Act II Scene 1, Hovstad tells Billing to lower his voice because who is in earshot?

3. In Act II Scene 1, Hovstad corrects Peter's characterization of the contamination as what?

4. In Act II Scene 2, Peter makes a motion that Tom be prohibited from what?

5. In Act II Scene 1, Peter supplies the most "practical" solution, which is what?

(see the answer keys)

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