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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Solness say he has given up?

2. Hilda does say Aline is by nature?

3. Who does Hilda say Solness was being fierce with?

4. What has Hilda been exploring?

5. What does Solness say he kept for only three weeks?

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

Why does Ibsen use only one location? How does he use the characters to express a life beyond this location? How is the location used to express elements such as theme and character? How do the students think the story's setting would change if it was a novel?

Essay Topic 3

Define the term modernism? What are the conventions of modernism and how is it different to post-modernism? In ways is Master Builder a modernist text?

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