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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hedda assume that Tesman is?
(a) Sleeping at Julle's.
(b) Taking care of Lovborg.
(c) Still partying.
(d) Gone to discuss the professorship.

2. What does Tesman plan to do with the manuscript?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Take it to the publisher as his own work.
(c) Hide it until after the professorship is his.
(d) Return it right away to Lovborg.

3. What does Lovborg ask Hedda while they are alone?
(a) He asks if Tesman is angry with him for competing for the professorship.
(b) He asks her about Mrs Elvsted.
(c) He wants to know if she thinks his book is better than Tesman's.
(d) He asks if there was ever any love in her friendship for him.

4. What becomes apparent as soon as Hedda and Lovborg converse alone?
(a) Hedda is angry at Lovborg for an unknown reason.
(b) Hedda and Lovborg have been very close.
(c) Lovborg is jealous of Tesman's success.
(d) Hedda wishes she had married Lovborg.

5. What does Hedda say she is doing at the end of Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?
(a) Burning a child.
(b) Destroying her past.
(c) Making an opportunity for Tesman.
(d) Destroying Lovborg's future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hedda claim were her motives in their prior experiences together?

2. What are Mrs. Elvsted's plans when she leaves the Tesman household in Act 3 of HEDDA GABLER?

3. What reason does Hedda give Lovborg for not following through on a threat she made a long time ago?

4. What is the relationship between Lovborg and Miss Diana?

5. What does Lovborg know after his night at Brack's?

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