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

2. Who makes the plan that imprisons Old Ekdal?
(a) Mrs. Sorby.
(b) Hjalmar.
(c) Gregers.
(d) Werle.

3. What is Relling's occupation?
(a) Grocer.
(b) Poet.
(c) Artist.
(d) Doctor.

4. The people at lunch toast to what after seeing the rabbit skin?
(a) The rabbit's soul.
(b) Molvik.
(c) Old Ekdal.
(d) Hjalmar's back room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Old Ekdal happy when he comes on stage at the beginning of Act 2?

2. How does Gregers think Hjalmar will feel about hearing the truth?

3. How does Werle describe his wife at the end of her life?

4. Gina asks Hedwig for help with what at the beginning of Act 3?

5. What does Hjalmar say Old Ekdal almost does after the bad bank deal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in Ekdal's back room?

2. What does Hjalmar admit to Gregers when they are alone in the room?

3. What does Hjalmar say about Werle's letter regarding Ekdal's pension?

4. What news does Hjalmar give Gina when she returns from shopping, and how does she react to this?

5. Immediately after Ekdal leaves, Gregers confronts his father about what? What is Werle's response to this?

6. The servants gossip about what while toasts are being made in the dining room?

7. Why does Gina tell Hedwig to stop reading in Act 2?

8. What does the note say that Mrs. Sorby gives to Hedwig in the hall?

9. What does Relling say to Gregers about Hedwig's death?

10. How does this play begin?

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