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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thing that Hedda fights hardest for?
(a) Love.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Amusement.

2. What does Lovborg know after his night at Brack's?
(a) That it is pointless for him to write books.
(b) That he is in love with Hedda.
(c) The he will not be able to maintain a respectable lifestyle.
(d) That he is the best man for the professorship.

3. Where does Hedda insist on sitting when Mrs Elvsted joins her and Lovborg?
(a) At Lovborg's right hand.
(b) In between Lovborg and Mrs Elvsted.
(c) Next to Mrs Elvsted where she can watch Lovborg.
(d) In the seat looking at both of them.

4. What happens to the manuscript when Tesman leaves?
(a) It gets knocked off the table and the pages scatter.
(b) Tesman takes it with him to return to it's rightful owner.
(c) Tesman gives it to Brack to hold onto.
(d) Tesman leaves it in Hedda's care.

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

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

7. What is the very important thing that Hedda keeps from Lovborg when he comes to see her in Act 3?
(a) His manuscript.
(b) Her love and sympathy.
(c) Information about the professorship.
(d) The money he needs to buy back his manuscript.

8. What does Hedda threaten, again, to do to Mrs. Elvsted?
(a) Ruin her in society.
(b) Burn her hair off.
(c) Seperate her from Lovborg.
(d) Write to her husband.

9. What does Tesman plan to do with the manuscript?
(a) Hide it until after the professorship is his.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Take it to the publisher as his own work.
(d) Return it right away to Lovborg.

10. What does Hedda show Lovborg when they are first left alone together?
(a) A photo album of her honeymoon.
(b) Her house.
(c) Her father's pistols.
(d) Her husband's manuscript.

11. Which of the following best characterizes Lovborg the night of Brack's party?
(a) Eloquent and learned.
(b) Strong and willful.
(c) Desperate and scheming.
(d) Out of control and drunken.

12. What does Lovborg take with him to Brack's?
(a) His manuscript.
(b) Mrs Elvsted's glove.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A bottle of punch.

13. What does Lovborg confess to Hedda about his manuscript?
(a) That he plagiarized Tesman's work.
(b) That he sold it to repay drinking debts.
(c) That he always hated the book.
(d) That he lost it.

14. What reason does Hedda give Lovborg for not following through on a threat she made a long time ago?
(a) It would have damaged her chances of marrying Tesman.
(b) She knew it was wrong.
(c) She was a coward and afraid of scandal.
(d) Because she loved Lovborg.

15. What is the usual manner for Brack's arrivals and departures?
(a) He arrives unannounced through the back door and garden.
(b) The front door, as a formal guest.
(c) He lets himself in without using the bell so not to disturb anyone.
(d) He comes and goes with Tesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lovborg try to call Hedda when they are alone?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the dinner party at Brack's house?

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

4. What is the reason that Brack gives Hedda for telling her everything that happened to Lovborg the previous evening?

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

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