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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Julle hope will fill her time in the future?
(a) She hopes for a job.
(b) She hopes for a niece or a nephew.
(c) She hopes for a husband.
(d) She hopes for a new puppy.

2. Why does Solness finally agree to give Ragnar a kind word about his work?
(a) Kaja threatens to leave him forever.
(b) Hilde threatens that she will no longer believe he is a good man.
(c) Hilde threatens him with a pistol.
(d) Aline threatens to kill herself.

3. Who, probably, actually is the woman who inspired Lovborg's book?
(a) The red-haired singer.
(b) Aunt Julle.
(c) Mrs. Elvsted.
(d) Hedda.

4. What instrument does Hedda raucously play as Tesman and Mrs. Elvsted try to rewrite the manuscript?
(a) She plays the harpsichord.
(b) She plays the oboe.
(c) She plays the guitar.
(d) She plays the piano.

5. What refreshment does Hedda offer to her guests?
(a) She offers them hot toddies.
(b) She offers them cold punch.
(c) She offers them water and bread.
(d) She offers them tea and cake.

6. Why has Solness kept Kaja employed?
(a) She is excellent at her job and he could ask for no one better.
(b) He is in love with her and wants to marry her.
(c) He wants to keep Ragnar under his thumb.
(d) He made a promise to her father that he would take care of her.

7. What does Hedda finally do with the manuscript?
(a) She claims it as her own and publishes it.
(b) She burns it in the fireplace.
(c) She gives it back to Tesman.
(d) She gives it back to Lovborg.

8. To what does Solness compare Hilde upon her entrance?
(a) Letters.
(b) Light.
(c) Building.
(d) Darkness.

9. What is Hilde's main memory of Solness?
(a) She remembers him hammering the wall.
(b) She remembers him singing.
(c) She remembers him dancing at a party.
(d) She remembers him climbing the tower.

10. Who does Ragnar want to marry?
(a) Hilde.
(b) Hedda.
(c) Kaja.
(d) Aline.

11. What is Lovborg's new book about?
(a) A history of machination.
(b) A medical thesaurus.
(c) The future of the wilderness.
(d) The future of civilization.

12. What are Hedda's feelings about Lovborg's suicide?
(a) She doesn't care one way or another.
(b) She thinks it is terribly sad.
(c) She thinks it is horrible.
(d) She thinks it is a courageous act.

13. For what kind of building was Solness constructing the tower many years ago?
(a) For a town hall.
(b) For a home.
(c) For a shop.
(d) For a church.

14. Which of the Master Builder's assistants is in love with him?
(a) Hilde.
(b) Brovik.
(c) Kaja.
(d) Ragnar.

15. What news does Tesman's note bring?
(a) His Aunt Julle is coming to visit.
(b) His Aunt Rina is close to death.
(c) His friend Mr. Brack has been killed.
(d) He has been granted the university job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Solness plan to hang from the tower of his new home?

2. Why does Lovborg say that Mrs. Elvsted is a good companion?

3. Which of the assistants was once the Master Builder?

4. Who arrives unexpectedly to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Solness?

5. What object did Aunt Julle purchase to impress Hedda?

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