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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How were the furnishings in the house paid for?
(a) Julle mortgaged her annuity to pay for the furnishings.
(b) Tesman could afford the furnishings with his salary.
(c) Berte lent Tesman the money to buy them.
(d) Hedda's inheritance paid for everything.

4. Which of the following best characterizes Mrs Elvsted's feelings regarding Lovborg?
(a) Protective, worried, and adoring.
(b) Proud, sure, and boastful.
(c) Fearful, thwarted, and rancorous.
(d) Skeptical and cautious.

5. When did Lovborg write his book?
(a) When he was unter the tutelage of Mr Elvsted.
(b) In his "good days" before he started drinking.
(c) Within the year prior to the happenings in Hedda Gabler.
(d) During a long solitary vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might Tesman not get the professorship he was promised?

2. What does Mrs Elvsted ask of Tesman in Act 1 of Hedda Gabler?

3. Which answer best describes Tesman's perception of Hedda?

4. What is the one thing that Hedda says she has an aptitude for?

5. What does Tesman bring home with him in the second act of HEDDA GABLER?

Short Essay Questions

1. Other than her dialogue, what are Hedda's two final actions in the play HEDDA GABLER?

2. What does Tesman say about the unpublished manuscript that Lovborg read to him at Brack's party?

3. What worry of Tesman's does Lovborg quickly alleviate?

4. What is the only thing that Mrs. Elvsted knows about the woman from Lovborg's past?

5. What does Hedda give Lovborg as a keepsake as he leaves her house in Act 3?

6. Why didn't Tesman tell anyone he had Lovborg's manuscript? What were his plans with it?

7. What does Brack press Hedda to do regarding Lovborg in the first part of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER? Why?

8. Who was Hedda Gabler before she married Tesman? What was her life like?

9. How did Hedda enjoy her honeymoon with Tesman?

10. What is the financial situation of the newly married couple?

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