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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oswald remember his father allowing him to do?

2. What will Regina have plenty of if she goes to live with Engstrand?

3. Who does Engstrand want to take home with him?

4. What kind of woman does Mrs. Alving say she is not?

5. What is Engstrand thinking of putting money into?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Engstrand get money from Manders?

2. Why did Manders send Mrs. Alving back when she ran to him?

3. Why is Manders so angry with Engstrand?

4. Why does Oswald say he is not shocked about the revelation about his father?

5. What does Mrs. Alving want her son Oswald to inherit?

6. How does Engstrand justify lying to Manders?

7. Why does Mrs. Alving think Regina is going to go into ruin?

8. How was Mrs. Alving's husband a sham?

9. What do Manders and Mrs. Alving hear from the dining room?

10. What did Mrs Alving do when she found out her husband had impregnated Joanna?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Mrs. Alving mean by ghosts? Why are the ghosts such an integral part of the story?

Essay Topic 2

What are the differences between a film and a play in terms of the following?

1) Language

2) Character development

3) Structure

Essay Topic 3

Compare Regina's character to the person she is at the beginning of the play to the person she is at the end of the play.

1) What does Regina hope to achieve at the start of the play?

2) What events changes Regina's ideas about life?

3) What does the author suggest will be Regina's future?

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