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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the state Lovborg is in when he returns to the Tesman household after Brack's party?
(a) Sad and mournful.
(b) Elated and joyous.
(c) Contrite and repentant.
(d) Desperate and disheveled.

2. Before he leaves, what does Lovborg promise to do?
(a) Stay sober.
(b) Finish his book.
(c) Speak to Brack about the professorship.
(d) Return at ten to take Mrs. Elvsted home.

3. What does Lovborg want Tesman to see?
(a) Evidence of his reformed ways.
(b) That he is a potential candidate for the professorship.
(c) The manuscript to his next book.
(d) That he is a better writer than Tesman.

4. What does Lovborg say about his recently published book?
(a) It is important to him that it sells well.
(b) He is excited it is a success.
(c) There is nothing much in it, that he wrote a book everyone would agree with.
(d) It is his great masterpiece.

5. What item in Hedda and Tesman's house has been moved out of view in the beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) The pistols.
(b) The picture of Rina.
(c) The bouquet of flowers.
(d) Hedda's piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mrs Elvsted's plans for the future?

2. When Tesman and Brack first invite Lovborg to Brack's party, what does Lovborg do?

3. What is the one thing that Hedda says she has an aptitude for?

4. What does Mrs Elvsted ask of Tesman in Act 1 of Hedda Gabler?

5. What is the relationship between Berte and Rina?

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