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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(b) Withdrawn and callow.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

2. Why does Peer think he is protected from what destroyed his yacht?
(a) He has done too much good.
(b) He is a God-fearing man.
(c) He is wearing his lucky shoes.
(d) His friends were being punished.

3. Who is with Peer after the ship has sunk?
(a) The Captain.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) The Cabin boy.
(d) The Cook.

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

5. What does Peer say he does not want his money supporting at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) Lives of liars.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Ale houses.
(d) Other men's families.

6. Where is Peer when he meets the button moulder?
(a) On the moor.
(b) In the forest.
(c) In the desert.
(d) On a ship.

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

8. Who does Peer apologize to in the forest?
(a) Solveig.
(b) Aase.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

9. Where does Solveig say Peer has been all these years?
(a) In her heart.
(b) Doing as he must.
(c) Searching for himself.
(d) Out to sea.

10. Who is the Lean Man?
(a) A homeless man.
(b) An angel.
(c) The Devil.
(d) A priest.

11. Why does Anitra refuse to be Peer's lover?
(a) He has another wife.
(b) She does not love him.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) She has no soul.

12. What happens to Peer as he runs away from Solveig's hut again?
(a) He gets lost and confused.
(b) He has hallucinations.
(c) He hits his head and falls unconscious.
(d) He falls into a grave.

13. Peer grateful for what after he joins the funeral procession?
(a) It is not his funeral.
(b) He has time to get a family.
(c) He did not die at sea.
(d) He did not know the man.

14. What does Peer plan to do with the land he is on when he finds the robes?
(a) Live there away from civilizations.
(b) Develop it.
(c) Grow a farm there.
(d) Sell it.

15. What are the people around Peer preparing for at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) The winter.
(b) Landing.
(c) A storm.
(d) An attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Peer describe his life after he is abandoned by Anitra in Act 4, Scene 1?

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

3. How does the Pen Man die?

4. What does Peer say is his ultimate goal for success?

5. Where does the person by the Sphinx take Peer?

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