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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 does Peter absentmindedly forget at the office when he leaves in Act II Scene 1?
2. What does Tom tell Peter that his cane represents in Act II Scene 1?
3. Kirsten Springs Institute is what type of corporation?
4. In Act II Scene 2, Peter makes a motion that Tom be prohibited from what?
5. Only the town drunk and who vote against declaring Tom an enemy of the people in Act II Scene 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Petra bring to the office in Act II Scene 1? What does she remark about it?
2. What solution to the problem does Peter supply in Act II Scene 1?
3. What is Billing doing in the beginning of Act II Scene 1? Who is he with?
4. What does Billing say of Aslaksen in Act II Scene 1? What is Hovstad's reply?
5. What does Peter inform Aslaksen and the others in the office about taxation in Act II Scene 1? What is the response?
6. What conversation does Petra have with Peter in Act II Scene 2?
7. What does the crowd complain about in the beginning of Tom's speaking in Act II Scene 2? How is this assuaged?
8. How does Hovstad respond to Petra's questioning in Act II Scene 1? What does Petra do?
9. What does Tom response when several in the crowd call him a revolutionist in Act II Scene 2?
10. What does Tom tell Hovstad to do when he enters in Act II Scene 1? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the literary element of theme. How does theme differ from subject? How does the theme of "the nature of truth" apply to the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
In "An Enemy of the People", the mayor attempts to keep the public from the information in the report to protect himself. In your own community, do you recall any instance in which a local government, business, factory, school district, newspaper, or another entity attempted to withhold vital information from the public?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the central subject of debate in the play. How is the pollution in the water described? How "fixable" is the issue?
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