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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Peer hunting before the start of this play?

2. What do the men at the doors of the wedding ask Peer to do?

3. In Act 2, Scene 7, who does Peer ask to deliver his gift to Solveig?

4. What does Peer wonder about as he is traveling during the second scene of the play?

5. What does Peer say he lost while he was hunting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the middle aged woman doing at the end of Act 4?

4. What does Solveig do to comfort Aase as they search for Peer, and how does Aase respond to this kindness?

5. Why does Aase lose her home?

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

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

8. What does Aase say as she searches for Peer in Act 1?

9. What does Peer's mother think makes Peer so arrogant?

10. What happens when Peer has a vision?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Power and greed are two common themes in this book. Where do they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 2

Despair is a theme that is placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role does despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 3

The characters in this play all have their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affects the characters around them.

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