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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Aase's best friend?
(a) Karli.
(b) Karilee.
(c) Kari.
(d) Karla.

2. Peer tells the men at the doors of the wedding that he can do what?
(a) Read their minds.
(b) Fly.
(c) See through walls.
(d) Kill them.

3. In Act 2, Scene 6, what kind of King does Peer encounter?
(a) Troll.
(b) Dragon.
(c) Elf.
(d) Warlock.

4. What word does Aase use to describe her efforts to find Peer?
(a) Strange.
(b) Intimidating.
(c) Useless.
(d) Ironic.

5. Where does Peer wake up after being attacked in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Outside his mother's hut.
(b) In a church.
(c) By a river.
(d) In a graveyard.

6. What does Peer refuse to do when the King speaks to him?
(a) Grow a tail.
(b) Marry his daughter.
(c) Forget his family.
(d) Eat Elfish food.

7. What does Peer talk to Aase about when he visits her in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) His home in the woods.
(b) Her strength.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His love for her.

8. What is the name of the person who teases Peer during the second scene of the play?
(a) Alanta.
(b) Alance.
(c) Aslan.
(d) Aslak.

9. What is Aase's friend helping her do when she first appears in Act 2?
(a) Selling her belongings.
(b) Planting a garden.
(c) Packing her house.
(d) Building a barn.

10. What does Peer ask some people to do when he first arrives at the wedding?
(a) Loan him some nice clothes.
(b) Hide him.
(c) Dance with him.
(d) Tell him where Ingrid is.

11. What is the name of the first girl to dance with Peer at the wedding?
(a) Solviet.
(b) Sonieg.
(c) Sonia.
(d) Solveig.

12. In Act 2, Scene 5, most people see what when they view the woman's house?
(a) A great castle.
(b) A graveyard.
(c) A pile of rocks.
(d) A tree.

13. What is Aase's last name?
(a) Peer.
(b) Peers.
(c) Gynt.
(d) Gynte.

14. Where does Peer put his mother before running off?
(a) On a boulder in the river.
(b) On the roof.
(c) In her bed.
(d) In a tree.

15. Who helps Peer's mother after Peer runs off?
(a) Two old women.
(b) A flock of birds.
(c) A traveling salesman.
(d) A young dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal joins the attack on Peer when the King leaves in Act 2, Scene 7?

2. What does Peer look at that causes him to lose hope as he is traveling during the second scene of the play?

3. What does Peer's mother say she will never let happen to him?

4. Where does Peer want to go when he loses hope while traveling during the second scene of the play?

5. What does the King tell Peer he must renounce?

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