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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the bride during the wedding?

2. Where does Peer wake up after being attacked in Act 2, Scene 7?

3. What does Peer risk to see Aase one last time?

4. In Act 2, Scene 5, most people see what when they view the woman's house?

5. What do the men at the doors of the wedding ask Peer to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Solveig do to comfort Aase as they search for Peer, and how does Aase respond to this kindness?

2. Why does the passenger tell Peer that he doesn't have to worry about dying when the ship sinks?

3. How does Peer describe the tree he is cutting down at the beginning of Act 3?

4. What happens while Peer is living in a tree?

5. Who does Peer meet after his vision, and what does she convince him to do?

6. Who joins Peer in the forest, and how does Peer respond to this?

7. What does Aase say as she searches for Peer in Act 1?

8. What does Aase find while she is packing her belongings in preparation to leave her home?

9. Who does Peer meet after leaving Ingrid, and what does he do with them?

10. What happens when Peer has a vision?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Power and greed are two common themes in this book. Where do they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 2

Solveig and Aase are two very similar people, and yet they have some very notable and important differences. Using the text to support your theories, write a compare/contrast essay about these two characters

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story, and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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