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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new responsibility of Hedda's does Mr. Brack refer to?
(a) He refers to her new job.
(b) He refers to her new horse.
(c) He refers to her caring for Aunt Rina.
(d) He refers to her alleged pregnancy.

2. What is Hilde's main memory of Solness?
(a) She remembers him singing.
(b) She remembers him dancing at a party.
(c) She remembers him climbing the tower.
(d) She remembers him hammering the wall.

3. Why has Solness kept Kaja employed?
(a) He made a promise to her father that he would take care of her.
(b) He wants to keep Ragnar under his thumb.
(c) He is in love with her and wants to marry her.
(d) She is excellent at her job and he could ask for no one better.

4. Why is Tesman in competition with Lovborg?
(a) They are each in love with Mrs. Elvsted.
(b) They are running the same race for the fair.
(c) They are building houses across the street from each other.
(d) They are up for the same job at the university.

5. What destroyed Solness and Aline's original home?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A flood.
(d) A fire.

6. With what type of person is Solness prone to having relationships?
(a) He is prone to relationships with younger women.
(b) He is prone to relationships with very intelligent women.
(c) He is prone to relationships with very poor women.
(d) He is prone to relationships with older women.

7. What refreshment does Hedda offer to her guests?
(a) She offers them tea and cake.
(b) She offers them hot toddies.
(c) She offers them water and bread.
(d) She offers them cold punch.

8. How is Hedda described in the stage directions?
(a) A frivolous blond with mounds of curls.
(b) An aristocratic figure with steel-gray eyes.
(c) A rough person of swarthy complexion.
(d) A fading beauty of advancing years.

9. Who does Ragnar want to marry?
(a) Hedda.
(b) Hilde.
(c) Kaja.
(d) Aline.

10. Why was Lovborg arrested?
(a) He littered.
(b) He killed Mr. Brack with Hedda's pistol.
(c) He accused an ex-lover of stealing his manuscript.
(d) He jay-walked.

11. Who, probably, actually is the woman who inspired Lovborg's book?
(a) Hedda.
(b) Aunt Julle.
(c) The red-haired singer.
(d) Mrs. Elvsted.

12. What children did Solness and Aline have?
(a) They had twin boys.
(b) They had one boy.
(c) They had twin girls.
(d) They had one girl.

13. Who arrives with news of Lovborg's attempted suicide?
(a) Mrs. Elvsted.
(b) Tesman.
(c) Aunt Julle.
(d) Mr. Brack.

14. What are Hedda's feelings about Lovborg's suicide?
(a) She thinks it is terribly sad.
(b) She thinks it is horrible.
(c) She thinks it is a courageous act.
(d) She doesn't care one way or another.

15. What prized possession was passed to Hedda from her father?
(a) His saber.
(b) His money clip.
(c) His fountain pen.
(d) His pistols.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hedda die?

2. Why has Hilde come?

3. Why does Hedda tell Tesman she burned the manuscript?

4. By the end of Act 4, what has Hedda lost?

5. How does Mr. Brack attempt to blackmail Hedda?

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