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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 compromise does Tom reach when reading the report at the gathering in Act II Scene 2?

2. After Tom leaves in Act II Scene 1, Hovstad comments to Aslaksen that Tom might prove to be what?

3. What does Tom tell Peter that his cane represents in Act II Scene 1?

4. How does Peter enter in Act II Scene 1?

5. Tom claims in Act II Scene 2 that he stands against the conventional wisdom that the majority is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Billing say of Aslaksen in Act II Scene 1? What is Hovstad's reply?

2. Who is allowed to talk first in the meeting? What does he state?

3. Who does Tom congratulate in the beginning of his speech in Act II Scene 2? What is the response?

4. How does Tom describe to the crowd his objectives in bringing the springs to town in Act II Scene 2?

5. What does the crowd complain about in the beginning of Tom's speaking in Act II Scene 2? How is this assuaged?

6. Where does Act II Scene 2 begin? Why is Horster a part of the assembly?

7. What does Tom threaten when the crowd attempts to silence him in Act II Scene 2?

8. What does Tom tell Hovstad to do when he enters in Act II Scene 1? Why?

9. What is Billing doing in the beginning of Act II Scene 1? Who is he with?

10. What conversation does Catherine have with Horster and Billing in the beginning of Act II Scene 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine and discuss the career of Henrik Ibsen and the original production of "An Enemy of the People". What did Ibsen write the play in response to?

Essay Topic 3

Newspapers today pride themselves on their willingness to print the truth. But do they always print the truth? Or do they sometimes bow to the same forces that pressured Hovstad to abandon publication of Dr. Stockmann's story?

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