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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hedda threaten to do to Berte in Act 1 of Hedda Gabler?
(a) Send her to care for Rina.
(b) Dismiss her.
(c) Visit her every day.
(d) Cut her hair off.

2. Where does Hedda assume that Tesman is?
(a) Gone to discuss the professorship.
(b) Still partying.
(c) Taking care of Lovborg.
(d) Sleeping at Julle's.

3. At the end of Act 2, what does Hedda confess to Mrs Elvsted that she wants out of the whole situation?
(a) To influence a human fate.
(b) To secure the professorship for Tesman.
(c) To win Lovborg's love.
(d) To see Lovborg succumb to weakness.

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

5. What do Julle and Tesman discuss as a strong ability of Tesman's?
(a) Seeing the influence of small actions.
(b) Foreseeing the direction society will take.
(c) Making sense of confusing information.
(d) Collecting and arranging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lovborg want Tesman to see?

2. When does Hedda do with Lovborg's manuscript when she hears the maid admit Lovborg into the house?

3. Before he leaves, what does Lovborg promise to do?

4. What does Lovborg say about his recently published book?

5. From their conversation, what can one infer about Brack and Hedda in Act 2?

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