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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 is the name of Solveig's sister?
(a) Holga.
(b) Helga.
(c) Hildi.
(d) Heidi.

2. What is the name of the girl Peer's mother has seen him with in town?
(a) Ingrid.
(b) Isabelle.
(c) Inga.
(d) Izzy.

3. What does Peer say he could not do at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Cut off his own finger.
(b) Skip his military duty.
(c) Fake his own death.
(d) Stab himself in the leg on purpose.

4. What will happen if Peer ever leaves the forest?
(a) He will be executed.
(b) He will be forced to marry Ingrid.
(c) He will be fined.
(d) He will be thrown in prison.

5. What does Peer refuse to do when the King speaks to him?
(a) Forget his family.
(b) Grow a tail.
(c) Marry his daughter.
(d) Eat Elfish food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do when he sees Peer at the beginning of Act 3?

2. What does Peer see in his vision?

3. What did Peer pretend to be when he was a young child?

4. What is the name of the first girl to dance with Peer at the wedding?

5. What does the King tell Peer he must renounce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before her death, Aase tries to talk to Peer about Ingrid. What does he do?

2. What does Peer's mother think makes Peer so arrogant?

3. What happens when Peer gets to the wedding feast?

4. What does a young boy do at the beginning of Act 3?

5. What does Solveig do when she sees Peer at the end of the play?

6. What is the middle aged woman doing at the end of Act 4?

7. How does Peer's mother react to the story her son tells at the beginning of the play?

8. What does Peer ask permission to do to repent of his sins, and how does the button moulder respond?

9. What is the life philosophy that the Troll King preaches, and how does it differ from the human philosophy on life?

10. What happens when Peer has a vision?

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