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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gregers promise not to do while speaking with someone at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Alarm them.
(b) Make things difficult.
(c) Annoy them.
(d) Be distracting.

2. About what does Werle's son get mad at his father after Ekdal leaves?
(a) Not taking his blame for the business.
(b) Not stopping the bad behavior of Ekdal's son.
(c) Letting the Ekdal family sink so low.
(d) Inviting a fighting family to dinner.

3. Where does Hedwig say she likes to spend most of her time at home?
(a) The photography office.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The back room.

4. What do Relling and Molvik do the night before the lunch?
(a) Goto a rally.
(b) Go dancing.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Attend a dinner party.

5. About what do Gina and Hjalmar argue when Hjalmar comes home?
(a) That she is not in bed yet.
(b) How she is running the business.
(c) That he has brought nothing home from the party.
(d) That he has returned home so late.

6. Gregers says Hjalmar is lost in what?
(a) A wildlife refuge.
(b) A poisonous swamp.
(c) A minefield.
(d) His own mind.

7. Relling say Gregers is sick with what?
(a) Guilty Conscience.
(b) Truth Envy.
(c) Integrity Fever.
(d) Vindication.

8. About what does Hjalmar caution Hedwig regarging the gun when he returns from the attic?
(a) It is very old.
(b) It is a machine.
(c) It is unpredicatble.
(d) It is loaded.

9. Who asks that Hedwig not go to school?
(a) Werle.
(b) Hjalmar.
(c) Gina.
(d) Hedwig's teacher.

10. At the beginning of Act 3, Gina complains about what to Hjalmar?
(a) The lack of food in the house.
(b) The advancing of Hedwig's disease.
(c) The rudeness of a customer.
(d) The mess Gregers has made.

11. What is the name of the Werle's housekeeper?
(a) Mrs. Sorby.
(b) Ms. Surdy.
(c) Mrs. Sirby.
(d) Ms. Sardy.

12. How does Gregers think Hjalmar will feel about hearing the truth?
(a) Grateful.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Angry.
(d) Insiduous.

13. What burden does Gregers say is constantly with him?
(a) Shame.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Pity.
(d) The truth.

14. For what is Gina's daughter excited when her father gets home?
(a) A kiss before she goes to bed.
(b) A new book.
(c) A new photograph.
(d) Something nice from the party.

15. What does Hjalmar say he has a sacred duty to do?
(a) Take his family to church.
(b) Help his daughter.
(c) Make his wife's life easier.
(d) Take care of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Hjalmar's daughter at the beginning of the book?

2. What does Werle's son say he has discovered as he leaves his father's house at the beginning of the book?

3. What is Gina doing at the beginning of Act 2?

4. What does Ekdal's son say when Ekdal leaves for home?

5. Who interrupts the near fight between Gregers and Relling?

(see the answer keys)

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