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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tesman invite over to their house for evening in Act 1 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) Mrs Elvsted.
(b) Berte.
(c) Brack.
(d) Ejlert Lovborg.

2. What is the only thing that Mrs Elvsted knows about the woman whose shadow stands between her and Lovborg?
(a) She had rejected Lovborg for another man.
(b) Lovborg had asked her to marry him.
(c) She was a remarkable beauty, with red hair.
(d) She tried to shoot him with a pistol.

3. What role did Ejlert Lovborg play in the Elvsted household prior to the happenings in the play Hedda Gabler?
(a) He was a close friend of Mr Elvsted.
(b) He was a distant relation.
(c) He tutored the children.
(d) He was the protege of Mr Elvsted.

4. What is the one thing that Hedda says she has an aptitude for?
(a) To be a wife.
(b) To dance and be merry.
(c) To bore herself.
(d) Light conversation.

5. What is the profession of Jorgen Tesman?
(a) Merchant and importer.
(b) Politician.
(c) Academic researcher and aspiring professor.
(d) Tesman does not work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hedda do when Brack arrives in the beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?

2. What does Lovborg want Tesman to see?

3. How were the furnishings in the house paid for?

4. Which of the following best describes Mrs Elvsted's marriage?

5. Why did Tesman buy the house he did?

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