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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Berte deliver for Tesman at a very early hour of the morning?
(a) A package.
(b) A manuscript.
(c) A letter from Hedda's past.
(d) A letter from Julle.

2. What does Brack suggest is Lovborg's motive for visiting the Tesman household?
(a) To get leverage to win the professorship.
(b) To get close to Hedda.
(c) To use it as a meeting place with Mrs Elvsted.
(d) To have access to Tesman's work.

3. In Act 3, after Brack leaves, what does Hedda do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Leaf through Lovborg's manuscript.
(c) Pour herself a drink.
(d) Write a letter to Lovborg.

4. What does the letter from Julle tell Tesman?
(a) That Rina is dying and he must hurry to her side.
(b) That Lovborg was arrested, and needs help.
(c) That Hedda is pregnant.
(d) That the police know he has Lovborg's book, and he must go to the station at once.

5. Which of the following best characterizes the dinner party at Brack's house?
(a) Wild and uncontrolled.
(b) Dull and monotonous.
(c) Sophisticated and intellectual.
(d) Poorly attended and brief.

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

7. What does Hedda destroy in the end of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) Tesman's chances at the professorship.
(b) Her reputation.
(c) Lovborg's manuscript.
(d) Her father's pistols.

8. What does Lovborg ask Hedda while they are alone?
(a) He asks her about Mrs Elvsted.
(b) He wants to know if she thinks his book is better than Tesman's.
(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.

9. What does Hedda first tell Lovborg when he continually declines the cold punch she offered him?
(a) That she admired his fortitude.
(b) That it makes him appear unsure of himself.
(c) That Mrs Elvsted had trained him well.
(d) That he had changed greatly from the person she knew.

10. What reason does Hedda give for refusing to go with Tesman to Rina?
(a) She needs to wait for Lovborg to arrive.
(b) She feels unwell.
(c) She says she needs to free herself from darkness and death.
(d) Someone needs to guard the manuscript.

11. What does Hedda divulge to Lovborg that Mrs Elvsted did not want known?
(a) That she was jealous of Hedda.
(b) That she had been a flame of Tesman's.
(c) That she was anxious about Lovborg's fortitude.
(d) That she had left her husband.

12. How does Hedda imagine Lovborg when he returns?
(a) The talk of the town.
(b) Reckless and free.
(c) Flushed and fearless with vine leaves in his hair.
(d) Responsible and self controlled.

13. What is Hedda doing when Tesman returns from Brack's party?
(a) Writing a letter.
(b) Reading Lovborg's book.
(c) Stoking the fire.
(d) Talking with Mrs Elvsted.

14. What does Lovborg think Hedda's motives might have been in their prior friendship?
(a) To ruin his reputation.
(b) To make him fall in love.
(c) To purge and cleanse him of his ways.
(d) To keep him from writing.

15. What is Lovborg's plan for his future at the end of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) To get the professorship, and perhaps write again.
(b) To succumb to a life of debauchery and drunkeness.
(c) To end it all.
(d) To return to the Elvsted and regain control of his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes Lovborg the night of Brack's party?

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

3. What are Mrs. Elvsted's plans when she leaves the Tesman household in Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?

4. What does Mrs. Elvsted liken Lovborg's manuscript to?

5. Where did Tesman get Lovborg's manuscript?

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