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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the person by the Sphinx take Peer?
(a) To an insane asylum.
(b) To a palace.
(c) To a prison.
(d) To a great ship.

2. What does the person by the Sphinx call Peer?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) The Chosen One.
(c) The Awaited One.
(d) The Learned One.

3. How does Peer say people act when they are on ships?
(a) Less useful than they are.
(b) Braver than they are.
(c) Less than themselves.
(d) Withdrawn and callow.

4. Where does Peer plan to go after the ship sinks?
(a) America.
(b) His home.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Sweden.

5. Who gives the eulogy for the dead man?
(a) His wife.
(b) Solveig.
(c) The pastor.
(d) Peer.

6. What happens just as Peer is crying out for justice?
(a) The yacht explodes.
(b) A bomb hits the yacht.
(c) The yacht sinks.
(d) The yacht is attacked by sharks.

7. Peer is challenged in poem form spoken by ______________ in Act 4, Scene11.
(a) A tree.
(b) A snake.
(c) A cloud.
(d) A statue.

8. Who is the funeral for?
(a) Askan.
(b) Solveig's father.
(c) Ingrid's groom.
(d) The young boy who cut his finger off.

9. How does the Pen Man die?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He cuts his wrists.
(c) He hangs himself.
(d) He is shot.

10. Where does Peer go after Anitra leaves him?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Egypt.
(c) America.
(d) Sweden.

11. Where does Peer spend his middle aged years?
(a) England.
(b) Taiwan.
(c) Morocco.
(d) France.

12. What does Peer sell in China?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Herbs and spices.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Pagan images.

13. Why does Peer run away from Solveig's hut again?
(a) He fears she will be angry.
(b) There is another man there.
(c) She does not love him.
(d) He is not worthy of her.

14. How does Peer describe his life after he is abandoned by Anitra in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Empty.
(c) Deceiving.
(d) Fulfilling.

15. What does Peer find to eat after the auction?
(a) A fish.
(b) Some berries.
(c) An onion.
(d) Moldy bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the button moulder say must be used to discover the True Self?

2. What does Peer say he has the right to do when the ship sinks?

3. Of what does the Sphinx remind Peer?

4. What does Peer sell in America?

5. Why does Peer think he is protected from what destroyed his yacht?

(see the answer keys)

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