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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) They were former lovers.
(c) Lovborg owes Miss Diana money that she hopes to recover by the sale of his book.
(d) Miss Diana is his cousin who has always helped him through hard times.

4. At Brack's party, what information does Lovborg withhold?
(a) The name of the woman that inspired him.
(b) That his work is plagiarized from Tesman's.
(c) That he is in love with Hedda.
(d) That there is a second copy of the manuscript.

5. What does Hedda remember getting Lovborg to confess?
(a) That he wanted to write a great book in his life.
(b) That he loved Hedda.
(c) The details of his dissolute lifestyle.
(d) That he wanted to kill himself.

6. What is the reason that Brack gives Hedda for telling her everything that happened to Lovborg the previous evening?
(a) So that she understands the importance of the manuscript.
(b) To suggest that the Tesman house should not welcome Lovborg further.
(c) So that she can see how uncontrolled Lovborg is.
(d) Because he knows how Lovborg feels about Hedda.

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

8. Why did Lovborg fight with Miss Diana?
(a) Miss Diana demanded that he give her his book.
(b) Lovborg wanted more money from her.
(c) Miss Diana wanted him to stop drinking.
(d) Lovborg thought she took his manuscript.

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

10. What did Hedda envision for Lovborg the night of Brack's party?
(a) The end of Lovborg's career so that Tesman would get the professorship.
(b) For Lovborg to be independent and in control of himself without Mrs Elvsted's influence.
(c) For society to recognize Lovborg's complete reformation.
(d) For Lovborg to be recognized as a great scholar.

11. What is Lovborg's response to Hedda's revelation about Mr Elvsted?
(a) He makes a toast with a glass of punch, to 'the truth'.
(b) He laughs at Mrs Elvsted.
(c) He brushes it off and admonishes Hedda.
(d) He grows angry and embarrassed, and decides to leave with Tesman and Brack.

12. What does Hedda suggest that Lovborg do beautifully?
(a) Apologize to Mrs Elvsted.
(b) Go to the interview for the professorship.
(c) End it all.
(d) Write another book.

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

14. What does Hedda say she is doing at the end of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) Making an opportunity for Tesman.
(b) Burning a child.
(c) Destroying her past.
(d) Destroying Lovborg's future.

15. What becomes apparent as soon as Hedda and Lovborg converse alone?
(a) Hedda and Lovborg have been very close.
(b) Hedda is angry at Lovborg for an unknown reason.
(c) Hedda wishes she had married Lovborg.
(d) Lovborg is jealous of Tesman's success.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best characterizes the way Hedda feels about Mrs. Elvsted?

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

3. What does Tesman think of the book Lovborg read out loud at Brack's party?

4. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted when he returns at last from Brack's party?

5. What is Mrs. Elvsted waiting for in HEDDA GABLER at the beginning of Act 3?

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