A Doll's House Act 3

Question 1

the door to the hall

Answer 1

stands open

Question 2

a woman chucking a man

Answer 2

because something better turns up

Question 3

i thought it my duty

Answer 3

to destroy all the feelings you had for me

Question 4

i’m a shipwrecked man

Answer 4

clinging to a spar

Question 5

suppose we two

Answer 5

shipwrecked souls could join hands

Question 6

it is the greatest

Answer 6

joy of my life (work)

Question 7

i need someone

Answer 7

to be a mother to

Question 8

this unhappy secret

Answer 8

of Nora’s must be revealed

Question 9

large black

Answer 9

shawl

Question 10

possibly a trifle

Answer 10

too realistic

Question 11

an exit should always be dramatic, Mrs Linde.

Answer 11

But unfortunately that’s just what I can’t get Nora to realise.

Question 12

you ought to take up

Answer 12

embroidery

Question 13

(embroidery) it’s much

Answer 13

prettier

Question 14

dreadful bore

Answer 14

that woman is

Question 15

you’re a distractingly

Answer 15

beautiful young woman

Question 16

my most treasured

Answer 16

possession

Question 17

mine,

Answer 17

mine alon

Question 18

as you stand there

Answer 18

young and trembling and beautiful

Question 19

aren’t I

Answer 19

your husband?

Question 20

those are big words

Answer 20

for my little Nora to use!

Question 21

wish me the

Answer 21

same

Question 22

i must empty

Answer 22

the letter-box

Question 23

his suffering and loneliness

Answer 23

seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight of our marriage

Question 24

often I wish some terrible danger

Answer 24

might threaten you, so that I could offer my life and my blood, everything, for your sake

Question 25

silly

Answer 25

excuses

Question 26

do you understand

Answer 26

what you’ve done?

Question 27

i am condemned to humiliation and ruin

Answer 27

simply for the weakness of a woman

Question 28

we must appear to be

Answer 28

living together just as before

Question 29

feminine

Answer 29

helplessness

Question 30

i have broad wings

Answer 30

to shield you

Question 31

taking off my

Answer 31

fancy dress

Question 32

she has become his property in

Answer 32

a double sense

Question 33

she is now not only his wife

Answer 33

but also his child

Question 34

i shall be both your will

Answer 34

and your conscience

Question 35

a great wrong has been done to me, Torvald.

Answer 35

first by papa, and then by you.

Question 36

i performed tricks for youm

Answer 36

and you gave me food and drink

Question 37

i haven’t ever been

Answer 37

happy

Question 38

i’ve been your doll-wife,

Answer 38

just as i used to be papa’s doll-child

Question 39

i must educate

Answer 39

myself

Question 40

you’ve no experience of the world /

Answer 40

you’re blind

Question 41

can you neglect

Answer 41

your most sacred duties

Question 42

i believe that i am

Answer 42

first and foremost a human being

Question 43

i don’t really know what

Answer 43

religion mean

Question 44

has a woman really not the right

Answer 44

to spare her dying father pain, or save her husband’s life?

Question 45

you’re out of your

Answer 45

mind

Question 46

no man can be expected

Answer 46

to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves

Question 47

millions of women

Answer 47

have done it

Question 48

you think and talk like a stupid

Answer 48

child

Question 49

a complete

Answer 49

stranger

Question 50

they’re in better hands

Answer 50

than mine

Question 51

I shall often think of you

Answer 51

and the children and this house

Question 52

the miracle

Answer 52

of miracles

Question 53

i don’t believe

Answer 53

in miracles any longer

Question 54

the street door

Answer 54

slammed shut downstairs