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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 does Peer pretend to be when he has his vision?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A bear.
(c) A whale.
(d) A deer.

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

3. Who is the first person Peer sees after visiting his mother in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Solveig.
(b) Ingrid.
(c) Kari.
(d) Helga.

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

5. Who speaks in the first scene of Act 3?
(a) Peer.
(b) Peer and the boy.
(c) Peer and the preacher.
(d) The narrator and Peer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the first girl to dance with Peer at the wedding?

2. Where is Aase in her last scene of the play?

3. How many times does Peer hear the strange sound just before he sees the wedding?

4. When Peer is traveling, what does he hear people saying during second scene of the play?

5. Who does Peer meet after his vision?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peer do when he hears that Ingrid is to be married the next day?

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

3. What is the Lean Man's job?

4. What happens when Solveig gets to the wedding feast?

5. Why does Peer think the young boy did what he did at the beginning of Act 3?

6. What happens when Peer refuses to allow his eye to be cut in order to look more like a troll?

7. What does Peer do when he sees Solveig's hut?

8. Why does the young boy cut his finger off?

9. What does Solveig do when she hears Peer bragging after he wakes up from his attack?

10. What do Peer's guests do after hearing about his plans to join the war between the Greeks and the Turks?

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