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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. How does Gina feel when Gregers comes to her house?

2. What does Relling call Old Ekdal?

3. What kind of business does Ekdal's son run?

4. Why does Gregers think Werle is so greedy?

5. Who does Ekdal's son marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Hjalmar raised?

2. How does Gina say they have been able to survive on such a small income?

3. Immediately after Ekdal leaves, Gregers confronts his father about what? What is Werle's response to this?

4. What does Gina say when Gregers leaves her house?

5. Why does Gina tell Hedwig to stop reading in Act 2?

6. What news does Hjalmar give Gina when she returns from shopping, and how does she react to this?

7. What does Gregers say in response to Hjalmar's response to Werle's impending blindness?

8. Why does Gina say she had an affair with Werle while working for him?

9. What does Hjalmar say about the animals in the back room at the beginning of Act 4?

10. What does Hjalmar tell Gregers about his invention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair is a theme that has been placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role does despair play in this play?

Essay Topic 2

Choosing sides is a theme that is presented in this book. What are some of the examples of this theme, and how are the characters involved affected?

Essay Topic 3

Many characters in this book are persuaded to do things that they would not have done of their own accord. What are some of these instances, and how does persuasion affect the course of the plot?

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