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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 kind of friends were Mrs Elvsted and Hedda in school?
(a) They were inseperable best friends.
(b) They had some good friends in common and so they saw a lot of each other.
(c) They were classmates that spent a lot of time on school work together.
(d) They were seperated by a year, and Mrs Elvsted was frightened of Hedda.

2. What was Hedda's life like before she married?
(a) She was the popular daughter of a general.
(b) She was the heiress to a large fortune.
(c) She was the beautiful daughter of a poor family.
(d) She was a school teacher.

3. When Tesman and Brack first invite Lovborg to Brack's party, what does Lovborg do?
(a) Agree to stay with Hedda when she asks him to.
(b) Warmly accept as a way to regain old ties.
(c) Decline.
(d) Cautiously agree to go.

4. What do Julle and Tesman discuss as a strong ability of Tesman's?
(a) Foreseeing the direction society will take.
(b) Collecting and arranging.
(c) Seeing the influence of small actions.
(d) Making sense of confusing information.

5. From where are Tesman and Hedda returning?
(a) Their honeymoon.
(b) Spending the summer in the country.
(c) Visiting a relative that is unwell.
(d) The funeral of Hedda's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument makes its first appearance in Act 1 of Hedda Gabler?

2. How is Lovborg's book received by the public?

3. What does Hedda do when Brack arrives in the beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?

4. When Hedda and Brack are discussing a trip in a compartment on a train, what are they really discussing?

5. What role did Ejlert Lovborg play in the Elvsted household prior to the happenings in the play Hedda Gabler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What worry of Tesman's does Lovborg quickly alleviate?

2. What does Lovborg say the only option open to him now is? How does Hedda respond?

3. What does Hedda mean at the end of Act 2 when she tells Mrs. Elvsted that at ten o'clock Lovborg will return "with vine leaves in his hair"?

4. What leverage does Brack acquire over Hedda?

5. What is the bad news that Brack divulges to Tesman that causes Tesman distress? Why does it cause Tesman distress?

6. Where was Lovborg and what was he doing when the gun went off and killed him?

7. When Brack adds his own account of the night of the party to Hedda, where does he reveal that Lovborg has gone that Tesman was unaware of?

8. What does Tesman say about the unpublished manuscript that Lovborg read to him at Brack's party?

9. What does Hedda do to Brack when he approaches at the very beginning of Act 2 of HEDDA GABLER?

10. When Julle and Tesman discuss Hedda, what do they usually focus on?

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