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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Mrs. Elvsted compare the manuscript?
(a) She compares it to a horse.
(b) She compares it to a child.
(c) She compares it to a meal.
(d) She compares it to a guitar.

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

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

4. Why does Hedda tell Tesman she burned the manuscript?
(a) She tells him she burned it because she got cold.
(b) She tells him she burned it because she hates Lovborg.
(c) She tells him she burned it because Mrs. Elvsted insisted.
(d) She tells him she burned it to ensure his job at the university.

5. What was Hedda's father's career?
(a) He was a cobbler.
(b) He was a general.
(c) He was a clergyman.
(d) He was a teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What possession of Hedda's does she want to keep, despite the fact that it doesn't match their home?

2. What children did Solness and Aline have?

3. Why is Tesman in competition with Lovborg?

4. Why is Aline worried about his declaration?

5. What instrument does Hedda raucously play as Tesman and Mrs. Elvsted try to rewrite the manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Brack hint will soon keep Hedda busy, fulfilling her life and abating her incurable boredom?

2. Why has Hilde sought Solness out?

3. What does Mrs. Elvsted confess to Hedda?

4. What are Hedda's feelings about Tesman's aunts?

5. What are the factors that, combined, mean such despair for Hedda that she must end her life?

6. Why is Ejlert unable to return Mrs. Elvsted's love sufficiently?

7. How does Hedda convince Lovborg to go to the party?

8. How does Lovborg take his leave of Mrs. Elvsted?

9. How does Hedda end up with Lovborg's manuscript?

10. Why is Solness afraid of youth?

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