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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between Lovborg and Miss Diana?
(a) Lovborg owes Miss Diana money that she hopes to recover by the sale of his book.
(b) They were former lovers.
(c) Miss Diana is his cousin who has always helped him through hard times.
(d) Miss Diana works at the police station and remembers him from before his reformation.

3. When Tesman and Brack first invite Lovborg to Brack's party, what does Lovborg do?
(a) Decline.
(b) Warmly accept as a way to regain old ties.
(c) Cautiously agree to go.
(d) Agree to stay with Hedda when she asks him to.

4. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted happened to the manuscript?
(a) That he sold it to pay his debts.
(b) That he tore it into bits and scattered it in the fjord.
(c) That Miss Diana has taken it and he can't get it back.
(d) That it is missing but the police are looking for it.

5. What does Lovborg ask Hedda while they are alone?
(a) He wants to know if she thinks his book is better than Tesman's.
(b) He asks her about Mrs Elvsted.
(c) He asks if Tesman is angry with him for competing for the professorship.
(d) He asks if there was ever any love in her friendship for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lovborg think Hedda's motives might have been in their prior friendship?

2. What does Hedda say she is doing at the end of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?

3. What reason does Hedda give Lovborg for not following through on a threat she made a long time ago?

4. When did Lovborg write his book?

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

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