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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the town play music to celebrate the building of Solness' tower?

2. What did Solness hang on the weather vane?

3. What did Solness promise Hilda he would buy her in Spain?

4. What kind of drink is on the table?

5. Where do the couple want their villa built?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Solness say about God in the final act?

2. What does Hilda claim is the real reason she has come to see Solness?

3. Why does Aline say she is glad to move to a new house?

4. How did Aline get over the death of her sons?

5. What does Solness say about Aline's talent?

6. Why does Solness not want to write something on Ragnar's drawings?

7. Why does Hilda say she stays away from her father?

8. What does Solness tell Kaia?

9. What does Hilda think Solness suffers from?

10. Why does Solness get angry with Ragnar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What made Solness a good architect? What did Solness have to learn to become a successful architect?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Was the generational gap expressed in the Master Builder particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the play and helps to express character and theme:

1. Setting

2. Structure

3. Language

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