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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people refuse to do with Peer when he first arrives at the wedding?
(a) Talk to him.
(b) Tell him where Ingrid is.
(c) Look him in the eye.
(d) Dance with him.

2. What does Peer wonder about as he is traveling during the second scene of the play?
(a) How he will be received.
(b) How he will hide.
(c) What he will say to Inga.
(d) What Ingrid will say.

3. What is the name of Solveig's sister?
(a) Helga.
(b) Heidi.
(c) Holga.
(d) Hildi.

4. Who is the Troll Princess?
(a) Ingrid.
(b) Solveig.
(c) The farm girls.
(d) The Woman in Green.

5. What is the King willing to give Peer if he meets certain conditions?
(a) A sword and a shield.
(b) His promise of safe passage.
(c) His daughter and half the kingdom.
(d) A potion and a magic mirror.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Peer's mother say he will end up?

2. Why does Peer think the boy does what he does at the beginning of Act 3?

3. When Peer first arrives at the wedding, what is happening?

4. What is the name of Aase's best friend?

5. What does Peer want to make with a tree at the beginning of Act 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the hunting story that Peer tells his mother at the beginning of the play?

2. What happens to the yacht stolen by Peer's friends, and how does Peer react?

3. What does Peer do when he sees people dancing at the wedding?

4. What happens when Peer finds an onion in the woods?

5. What does Peer say about sailors?

6. What do the men at the doors ask Peer to do, and how does he respond?

7. What does Peer say before and after he finds the robes?

8. Who does Peer meet after his vision, and what does she convince him to do?

9. What happens when Peer meets the stranger on the ship?

10. What does Peer do when the cook starts to let go of the raft?

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