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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. Which of the following best describes Mrs Elvsted's marriage?
(a) Abusive and horrible.
(b) Loveless and convenient.
(c) Comfortable and satisfactory.
(d) Passionate and unwise.

2. What does Julle do as soon as she enters the room in the beginning of the first act?
(a) Reads a manuscript.
(b) Writes a letter.
(c) Hugs Hedda.
(d) Opens a window.

3. What kind of friends were Mrs Elvsted and Hedda in school?
(a) They were classmates that spent a lot of time on school work together.
(b) They were seperated by a year, and Mrs Elvsted was frightened of Hedda.
(c) They had some good friends in common and so they saw a lot of each other.
(d) They were inseperable best friends.

4. In Act 2, why does Julle send word she will not be visiting Hedda and Tesman that evening?
(a) Rina is getting worse.
(b) She has another social engagement.
(c) She does not feel welcome.
(d) She is still ofended about the hat.

5. What does Hedda dream of convincing Tesman to do?
(a) Become more fashionable.
(b) Get his book published.
(c) Go into politics.
(d) Move to the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes Hedda's feelings towards Mrs Elvsted?

2. What role did Ejlert Lovborg play in the Elvsted household prior to the happenings in the play Hedda Gabler?

3. Why did Tesman buy the house he did?

4. What are Mrs Elvsted's plans for the future?

5. What is the book Tesman is working on about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Lovborg and what was he doing when the gun went off and killed him?

2. When Julle and Tesman discuss Hedda, what do they usually focus on?

3. What reason does Hedda give Brack for her marrying Tesman?

4. What does Tesman ask of Hedda shortly after Julle leaves in Act 1? What does Hedda reply?

5. How does the title character in HEDDA GABLER feel about motherhood? Do others know or expect her to feel this way?

6. At the end of Act 1, what is the one thing Hedda says she still has one thing to amuse herself with?

7. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted when he sees her the morning after the party at Brack's?

8. In Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER, what do we learn about the hat incident of Act I that was not divulged to us at the time?

9. What does Lovborg say the only option open to him now is? How does Hedda respond?

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

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