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

2. What possession does Aunt Julle return to Tesman?
(a) She returns his cane.
(b) She returns his bookcase.
(c) She returns his slippers.
(d) She returns his top hat.

3. How did Lovborg really die?
(a) He jumped off a cliff and scattered his manuscript to the winds.
(b) He shot himself in the head in his home.
(c) He was shot in the stomach attempting to regain his manuscript.
(d) He was hit by a car.

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

5. What member of Tesman's family has passed away at the beginning of Act 4?
(a) Mr. Brack.
(b) Aunt Julle.
(c) Aunt Rina.
(d) Hedda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mr. Lovborg invited upon his arrival to the Tesmans'?

2. What does Solness plan to hang from the tower of his new home?

3. What object did Aunt Julle purchase to impress Hedda?

4. What is the most important element to Aline in her life?

5. What does Lovborg tell Mrs. Elvsted about the manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the implications to Hedda of Brack knowing Lovborg died by one of her pistols?

2. How does Hedda initially react to the news of Lovborg's suicide?

3. What are the factors that, combined, mean such despair for Hedda that she must end her life?

4. Why does Hedda refrain from visiting Aunt Rina?

5. How did Solness and Aline's children die?

6. What imminent threat does Tesman face now that Lovborg has a successful book?

7. What does Mr. Brack hint will soon keep Hedda busy, fulfilling her life and abating her incurable boredom?

8. What does Hedda claim spurred her original interest in Ejlert Lovborg, years ago?

9. What does Ragnar ask of Solness, since his father is close to death?

10. How does Hedda end up with Lovborg's manuscript?

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