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

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

3. How long has Mrs Elvsted been in town?
(a) Her whole family recently moved into town from the country.
(b) She moved to town some years ago.
(c) She is very recently arrived.
(d) She has always lived here.

4. What does Lovborg want Tesman to see?
(a) That he is a better writer than Tesman.
(b) Evidence of his reformed ways.
(c) The manuscript to his next book.
(d) That he is a potential candidate for the professorship.

5. What would best characterize the way Hedda greets Julle?
(a) Cool and formal.
(b) Loving and warm.
(c) Appreciative and obliging.
(d) Excited and enthusiastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the letter sent in Act 1 of HEDDA GABLE propose to do?

2. What does Julle do as soon as she enters the room in the beginning of the first act?

3. What does Hedda tell Brack about her trip with Tesman?

4. What is Lovborg going to do for Tesman?

5. In Act 2, why does Julle send word she will not be visiting Hedda and Tesman that evening?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the letter from Julle tell Tesman about Rina? What are Tesman and Hedda's responses?

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

3. What reason does Hedda give Tesman for burning the manuscript?

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

5. What does Hedda learn from Mrs.1Elvsted when they speak alone in Act I of Hedda Gabler that Mrs Elvsted had concealed from Tesman?

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 What does Tesman say about the unpublished manuscript that Lovborg read to him at Brack's party?

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

8. Why does Lovborg not accompany Mrs. Elvsted home as promised the day before?

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

10. In Act 1 of Hedda Gabler, Hedda and Tesman have just returned from a trip. Where were they, and what did they do?

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