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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the professorship so important to Tesman?
(a) He based his marriage and finances on the prospects of the job.
(b) He desperately wants some academic recognition.
(c) So he will finally outshine Lovborg.
(d) He wants to make Hedda and Julle proud of him.

2. What are Brack's views on his own marriage prospects?
(a) He prefers to maintain 'friendships' with married ladies.
(b) He does not care for the company of women.
(c) He is still waiting for the right woman to come into his life.
(d) He wishes he had proposed to Hedda while she was available.

3. What does Hedda confess to Brack regarding her feelings toward Tesman?
(a) She has never loved him.
(b) She can't understand why she doesn't love him.
(c) She admires him greatly and will grow to love him.
(d) She adores him.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Who embroidered Tesman's slippers?
(a) Julle.
(b) His Aunt Rina.
(c) Hedda.
(d) Berte.

7. What does Hedda do when Brack arrives in the beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) HideS Tesman's manuscript.
(b) Expresses her pleasure at being alone with Brack.
(c) Wishes Tesman were at home so she wouldn't have to be alone with Brack.
(d) ShootS at him with her pistol.

8. Which of the following best characterizes Hedda's feelings towards Mrs Elvsted?
(a) Concern and honesty.
(b) Jealousy and disdain.
(c) Kindness and friendship.
(d) Respect and fear.

9. What was the basis of the close friendship shared by Lovborg and Mrs Elvsted?
(a) Long walks in the country.
(b) Hard times that brought them together.
(c) Similar personalities.
(d) Working together on Lovborg's book.

10. What does the letter sent in Act 1 of HEDDA GABLE propose to do?
(a) Warn Mrs Elvsted's husband of her whereabouts.
(b) Summon Brack to the house.
(c) Make arrangements for a celebration.
(d) Invite Ejlert Lovborg over that evening.

11. What are Mrs Elvsted's plans for the future?
(a) None, other than to be near Ejlert Lovborg.
(b) Stay in town as long as her husband will agree to.
(c) Write and publish a book of her own.
(d) Start formal divorce proceedings.

12. Who is the bouquet of flowers from?
(a) The sender remains anonymous.
(b) Brack.
(c) Mrs Elvsted.
(d) Ejlert Lovborg.

13. What is the book Tesman is working on about?
(a) The importance of family in society.
(b) The role of religion in shaping the future.
(c) Cultural norms of the modern age.
(d) Domestic crafts of Brabant in the Middle Ages.

14. Why did Tesman buy the house he did?
(a) It had many rooms for raising a family.
(b) It was the only one he could afford.
(c) It was close to his work.
(d) He believed Hedda wanted it more than any other.

15. How is Lovborg's book received by the public?
(a) It is very well received and called 'a sensation'.
(b) It is ridiculed.
(c) It becomes the most popular novel of the time.
(d) It is disputed by the academic community.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lovborg going to do for Tesman?

2. What does Julle do as soon as she enters the room in the beginning of the first act?

3. Which of the following best compares the nature of Tesman's book to the nature of Lovborg's book?

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

5. What instrument makes its first appearance in Act 1 of Hedda Gabler?

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