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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What childhood memory does Oswald share about his father?
(a) He remembers the first cobbling.
(b) He remembers the first book he read.
(c) He remembers the first time plowing the fields.
(d) He remembers the first time he smoked a pipe.

2. What does Oswald ask for at the end of the play?
(a) He asks for Regine.
(b) He asks for a drink.
(c) He asks for the sun.
(d) He asks for the moon.

3. Why does Torvald stay away from Nora at parties?
(a) He cannot stand her.
(b) He is jealous of the attention she receives.
(c) He is always accompanying Dr. Rank.
(d) He is pretending they are secret lovers and engaged.

4. What does Oswald feel he has to make up to Regine?
(a) He borrowed money from her and did not pay it back.
(b) He mentioned bringing her to Paris, which he forgot.
(c) He send her father, Engstrand, away in anger.
(d) He dropped a teacup that shattered and she had to clean up.

5. Why does Pastor Manders like Engstrand?
(a) He feels Engstrand is honest and willing to confess is failures.
(b) Engstrand's daughter is the Pastor's wife, and it is only fitting for the Pastor to like him.
(c) He and Engstrand are brothers and he has always had a soft spot for him.
(d) Engstrand saved the Pastor's life once, long ago.

6. What kind of man was Mr. Alving?
(a) He was a distant, solemn man who rarely spoke or entertained.
(b) He was a jolly fellow with many friends who always visited.
(c) He was a debauched drunk and indiscreet cheater.
(d) He was a sainted man who never touched alcohol.

7. Who does Dr. Rank want Nora to prevent from visiting him in his final illness?
(a) Krogstad.
(b) Mrs. Rank.
(c) Torvald.
(d) Mrs. Linde.

8. What does Torvald discover in the lock of the mailbox?
(a) A piece of wood.
(b) A broken hairpin.
(c) A note from Mrs. Linde.
(d) A feather.

9. To what does Nora compare her and Torvald's life?
(a) She compares their marriage and home to a doll house.
(b) She compares their lives to Dr. Rank's death.
(c) She compares their lives to the bank.
(d) She compares their marriage and home to Krogstad's tragedy.

10. What disease does Dr. Rank have?
(a) Step throat.
(b) Tuberculosis of the spine.
(c) Cancer of the bones.
(d) Muscular Sclerosis.

11. What does Dr. Rank plan to send to Nora to alert her of his final descent?
(a) He will send his visiting card with a black cross on it.
(b) He will send his visiting card with a scull and crossbones on it.
(c) He will send her a detailed note.
(d) He will send her a single rose.

12. What is Torvald concerned about saving from their relationship?
(a) He is concerned about saving Dr. Rank from her treachery.
(b) He is concerned about preserving their public appearance.
(c) He is concerned about saving his sanity.
(d) He is concerned about saving her clothing for his next wife.

13. Why has Dr. Rank allowed himself such a merry evening?
(a) He and Nora are running away together.
(b) He has finished his own lab results.
(c) He is cured of his disease.
(d) He has fallen in love with Mrs. Linde.

14. Who is the only person Nora has left out of her shopping spree?
(a) Ivar.
(b) Torvald.
(c) Herself.
(d) Mrs. Linde.

15. What letter does Torvald ask Helene to mail?
(a) A letter to Torvald's mother.
(b) A letter containing Nora's forgery.
(c) A letter containing Krogstad's notice.
(d) A letter containing Dr. Rank's will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important piece of biological information does Mrs. Alving reveal to Regine and Oswald?

2. Why did the Pastor stay away from Helene and Mr. Alving for so many years?

3. What story does Engstrand tell about Regine's parentage?

4. In the past year, what did Nora do two weeks before Christmas?

5. What does Oswald think will happen to any attempted memorial of his father?

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