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

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

3. What object(s) does Hedda keep imagining in Lovborg's hair?
(a) Combs.
(b) Vine leaves.
(c) A straw hat.
(d) Blood.

4. What is Solness paranoid really happened to the house?
(a) He is afraid Aline set it aflame.
(b) He is afraid Ragnar destroyed it on purpose.
(c) He is afraid he willed its destruction.
(d) He is afraid God did not want him to have the house.

5. What does Solness hope will help repair the relationship between him and Aline?
(a) His gift of jewelry.
(b) The new house.
(c) Hilde.
(d) The children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Tesman's note bring?

2. What has Solness promised Hilde?

3. What is the most important element to Aline in her life?

4. What was Hedda's father's career?

5. What will Tesman and Mrs. Elvsted use to reconstruct the manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Solness and Aline's children die?

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

5. Describe Solness' relationship with Kaja?

6. What is Ragnar's ambition?

7. What imminent threat does Tesman face now that Lovborg has a successful book?

8. What does Solness decide to do in honor of the new house?

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

10. What does Hedda claim spurred her original interest in Ejlert Lovborg, years ago?

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