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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 Nora put on herself, when Torvald goes in to read the letters?

2. How does Doctor Rank respond when Nora asks what he would do if she asked him a huge favor?

3. What does Mrs. Linde tell Nora to do?

4. What stops Nora from leaving?

5. What does Rank say he will send Nora, when he knows he is about to die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fantasy does Torvald say he has about his wife when he's bringing her home from a party?

2. What does Nora ask Doctor Rank to do for her, after the maid gives Nora the card?

3. What is the significance of Nora calling for the lamp?

4. Why does Nora confess what's happened to Mrs. Linde?

5. What does Torvald play on the piano?

6. What excuse does Nora make, so she doesn't have to explain the favor she wanted?

7. How does Mrs. Linde respond to Krogstad's suggestion that she should give up her post at the bank for his benefit?

8. After news of Doctor Rank's impending death, what does Torvald say that he often wishes?

9. What is Mrs. Linde's reaction when Krogstad offers to ask Torvald for his letter back?

10. What does Nora tell Torvald she needs his help to do, in order to keep him distracted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Nora and Torvald's systems of values.

1) What do Nora and Torvald value most? What are their priorities?

2) Why do Nora and Torvald each assume that the other has a similar system of values to their own?

3) Why have Nora and Torvald never discussed values and priorities?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of imposing ideas onto another person in the novel.

1) How does Torvald impose his own ideas onto Nora? Why does he do this? How successful is he at it?

2) How does a culture impose its ideas onto the people of the culture?

3) How do parents impose ideas and beliefs onto children? In what ways is this positive, and in what ways is it negative?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the definition of marriage in the play.

1) What is Nora's idea of marriage? How does her idea of marriage change throughout the play, and what does she mean by the true wedlock she wishes for at the end of the play?

2) What is Mrs. Linde's idea of marriage? What did her former marriage mean to her, and how is it different from her proposed union with Krogstad?

3) What is Torvald's idea of marriage? How does he define his relationship with Nora?

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