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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ragnar request of Solness just before Brovik's death?
(a) He requests the honor of constructing Solness's tower.
(b) He requests a partnership in the company.
(c) He requests money to build his father a coffin.
(d) He requests a kind word about his drawings to share with his father.

3. Which of the assistants has ambition of becoming a builder?
(a) Aline.
(b) Kaja.
(c) Ragnar.
(d) Brovik.

4. Why does Hedda goad Lovborg into going to the party?
(a) She is seeking revenge on Aunt Julle.
(b) She longs for an evening alone with Mrs. Elvsted.
(c) She wants to feel in control of someone's destiny.
(d) She plans to meet him in secret later.

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

6. Why did Hedda marry Tesman?
(a) She had an illicit relationship with him and became pregnant.
(b) She found him pathetically eager to support her while no one else was.
(c) She was betrothed to him as a small child.
(d) She was desperately in love with him and he with her.

7. Who arrives unexpectedly to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Solness?
(a) Kaja.
(b) Hedda Gabler.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Hilde Wangel.

8. Where does Tesman request for Mrs. Elvsted to take up residence?
(a) In town, by the singer's house.
(b) At Aunt Julle's house.
(c) In his own home.
(d) Back at her home in the country.

9. How is Hedda described in the stage directions?
(a) An aristocratic figure with steel-gray eyes.
(b) A frivolous blond with mounds of curls.
(c) A fading beauty of advancing years.
(d) A rough person of swarthy complexion.

10. What happened to the children?
(a) They were given to a relative, who still takes care of them.
(b) They were stolen out of their cradles.
(c) They died in a fire.
(d) Aline developed a fever that poisoned her breast milk which killed them.

11. Whom does Hedda "playfully" shoot at?
(a) Tesman.
(b) Ejlert Lovborg.
(c) Mrs. Elvsted.
(d) Mr. Brack.

12. What new responsibility of Hedda's does Mr. Brack refer to?
(a) He refers to her new job.
(b) He refers to her caring for Aunt Rina.
(c) He refers to her new horse.
(d) He refers to her alleged pregnancy.

13. What destroyed Solness and Aline's original home?
(a) A fire.
(b) A flood.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tornado.

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

15. Why has Hilde come?
(a) She is in love with Ragnar.
(b) She misses Aline, who is her very good friend.
(c) She remembers a promise Solness made to her ten years ago.
(d) She is responding to an advertisement for a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What papers is Solness flipping through?

2. Why won't Hedda go with Tesman to Aunt Julle's?

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

4. What children did Solness and Aline have?

5. To what does Mrs. Elvsted compare the manuscript?

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