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

2. Who asks for Peer's help during the wedding?
(a) The bride.
(b) The groom.
(c) The bride's father.
(d) The groom's mother.

3. Where is Aase in her last scene of the play?
(a) In a church.
(b) In the forest.
(c) On her deathbed.
(d) In a dream.

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

5. What does Peer's mother think of her son's hunting story?
(a) It is very exciting.
(b) It is an exaggeration of the truth.
(c) It is a lie.
(d) It is a tale of true bravery.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman Peer meets after his vision convinces Peer to do what?

2. What does Peer say he could not do at the beginning of Act 3?

3. What is Peer doing when he sees a young boy in Act 3?

4. At the end of Act 2, Scene 6, when the King runs away, what surrounds Peer?

5. Who is the Troll Princess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peer do when Helga tries to leave after he wakes up from his attack?

2. Why does Aase lose her home?

3. What does Peer decide to do after the funeral?

4. How does Peer describe the tree he is cutting down at the beginning of Act 3?

5. What does Peer do to make up for all the evil he put into the world?

6. What is the life philosophy that the Troll King preaches, and how does it differ from the human philosophy on life?

7. What does Peer hear from other travelers as he heads to Ingrid's wedding?

8. How does Peer's mother react to the story her son tells at the beginning of the play?

9. Where is Peer, and who is he with at the beginning of Act 3?

10. What does the Woman in Green tell Peer she will do to him when she finds him in the woods?

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