An Enemy of the People Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

An Enemy of the People Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverages are Tom, Catherine, Hovstad, and Captain Horster drinking when Tom's eldest child enters in Act I Scene 1?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the setting of Act I Scene 1?

5. Where did Arthur Miller's adaptation of "An Enemy of the People" first open?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom allude to in Act I Scene 1 that implies the coming problems?

2. What does Peter tell Tom he is going to do with Kirsten Springs in Act I Scene 2? What is Tom's response?

3. What is Peter's initial response to the report in Act I Scene 2?

4. What does Peter say of his reputation in Act I Scene 2?

5. According to Tom in Act I Scene 1, what must be done to correct the problem with the water? What does he do with the report?

6. Who has arrived at the beginning of Act I Scene 1? Where is Tom Stockmann?

7. What guests come in as Catherine's father is leaving in Act I Scene 1? What discussion do they have?

8. What does Tom assert of Peter's views in Act I Scene 1?

9. What does Peter suggest Tom do instead of releasing the report in Act I Scene 2? What is Tom's reaction?

10. Discuss the truth in Act I Scene 2. How does the playwright establish "the truth" in the narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the term "free thinking" function in "An Enemy of the People"?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the phrase "blood is thicker than water" and how this phrase applies in the play. To whom are Peter and Tom each the most committed to in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the characters of Petra and Tom Stockmann. What similarities do they share? What differences?

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