A Doll's House

Question 1

Torvald belittling Nora (QUOTES)

Answer 1

“little skylark” “little squirrel “he’s got a little songbird like you”
“[wagging a finger at her]”
“my little obstinate one’s out of her depth and wants someone to rescue her”

Question 2

Costumes (QUOTES)

Answer 2

“Torvald can’t bare to see dressmaking”
“I should like to tear it all to pieces”
“Torvald wants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher girl”
“What are you doing out there? Taking off my fancy dress”

Question 3

Christmas trees (QUOTES)

Answer 3

“It is stripped and disheveled”
“We shall have a lovely tree - I’ll do all the things you like”

Question 4

Macaroons (QUOTES)

Answer 4

“[then goes cautiously to her husband’s door and listens]”

Question 5

Light and Dark (QUOTES)

Answer 5

“Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself, now the lamp has come?”
“[Helmer (standing by the lamp): I scarcely have the courage to do it. It may mean ruin for both of us. No, I must know”

Question 6

Moral sickness (QUOTES)

Answer 6

“nearly all young men who go to the bad have had lying mothers”
“these things are hereditary”
an atmosphere of lies like that infects and poisons the whole life of a home”
“I won’t see my children”

Question 7

Nora rebelling against expectations (QUOTES)

Answer 7

“Sit down… I have a lot to talk to you about”
“I believe that before anything else I’m a human being”
“No, you mustn’t interrupt just, listen to what I have to say”
“It’s no good your forbidding me any longer”