A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

Question 1

(Stage direction) “Cautiously…”

Answer 1

“…eating macaroons.” (Ai,1)

Question 2

(Torvald) “There can be no…”

Answer 2

“…freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” (A1,5)

Question 3

(Nora) “No, I…”

Answer 3

“…assure you Torvald.” (Ai,7)

Question 4

(stage direction) “Clapping…”

Answer 4

“…her hands” (Ai)

Question 5

(Linde) “I have no…”

Answer 5

“…father to give me money for a journey, Nora.” (Ai,11)

Question 6

(Nora) “I will broach…”

Answer 6

“…the subject very cleverly.” (Ai,12)

Question 7

(Linde) “You are…”

Answer 7

“…a child Nora” (Ai,12)

Question 8

(Nora) “Is it…”

Answer 8

“…imprudent to save your husband’s life?” (Ai,13)

Question 9

(Nora) “How painful…”

Answer 9

“…and humiliating it would be for Torvald.” (Ai,14)

Question 10

(Nora) “To be able to be free from…”

Answer 10

“…care… to be able to keep the house beautifully and have everything just as Torvald likes it.” (Ai,15)

Question 11

(Nora) “Yes, but…”

Answer 11

“…these are some Christine gave me.” (Ai,17)

Question 12

(Nora, about kids) “Nice…”

Answer 12

“…little dolly children.” (Ai,19)

Question 13

(Stage direction) “After a short….”

Answer 13

“…throws her head up and looks defiantly at him.” (Ai,24)

Question 14

(Nora) “No it was not…”

Answer 14

“…it was I that wrote papa’s name.” (Ai,24)

Question 15

(Nora) “Then it must…”

Answer 15

“…be a very foolish law.” (Ai,24)

Question 16

(Nora) “Helen! Bring…”

Answer 16

“…the tree in!” (Ai)

Question 17

(Torvald) “My little songbird must…”

Answer 17

“…never do that again.” (Ai,26)

Question 18

(Torvald) “Because such an atmosphere…”

Answer 18

“…of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home.” (Ai,27)

Question 19

(stage direction) “(xmas tree) stripped of…”

Answer 19

“…ornaments, with burnt out candle ends.” (Aii)

Question 20

(Linde) “You are still very like…”

Answer 20

“…a child in many things, and I am older than you in many ways, and have a little more experience.” (Aii,31)

Question 21

(Nora) “You don’t know…”

Answer 21

“…what this letter can bring upon us.” (Aii)

Question 22

(Nora) “Don’t you feel…”

Answer 22

“…ashamed of yourself now the lamp has come?” (Aii)

Question 23

(Nora) “Being with Torvald…”

Answer 23

“…is a little like being with Papa.” (Aii)

Question 24

(Nora) “He mustn’t…

Answer 24

“…get the letter.” (Aii)

Question 25

(Nora) “There is lies–…”

Answer 25

“Torvald, torvald, there is no hope for us now!” (Aii)

Question 26

(Linde) “Believe me, Nora…”

Answer 26

“…that’s the best thing for you.” (Aii)

Question 27

(Torvald) “Not so…”

Answer 27

“…violently Nora.” (Aii)

Question 28

(Nora) “And a few…”

Answer 28

“…macaroons, Helen – lots, just for once!” (Aii)

Question 29

(Linde) “Nils, a woman…”

Answer 29

“…who has once sold herself for another’s sake, doesn’t do it a second time.” (Aiii)

Question 30

(Linde) “They must have a…”

Answer 30

“…complete understanding between them, which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on.” (Aiii)

Question 31

(Linde) “Nils, give me…”

Answer 31

“…someone and something to work for.” (Aiii)

Question 32

(Torvald) “All the beauty…”

Answer 32

“…that is mine, all my very own” (Aiii)

Question 33

(Torvald) “You wont –…”

Answer 33

“…you wont? Am I not your husband.” (Aiii)

Question 34

(Torvald) “Here is a broken…”

Answer 34

“…hairpin, Nora, it is one of yours.” (Aiii)

Question 35

(Nora) “The letter –”

Answer 35

“…No! Torvald, no!” (Aiii)

Question 36

(Nora) “Now you must…”

Answer 36

“…read your letters, Torvald.” (Aiii)

Question 37

(Torvald) “Miserable…”

Answer 37

“…creature, what have you done?” (Aiii)

Question 38

(Nora) “Yes, now…”

Answer 38

“…I am beginning to understand thoroughly.” (Aiii)

Question 39

(Torvald) “And I must think… “

Answer 39

“…to such miserable depths because of a thoughtless woman?” (Aiii)

Question 40

(Torvald) “I will protect…”

Answer 40

“…you like a haunted dove that I saved from the hawk’s claws.” (Aiii)

Question 41

(Torvald) “It seems as if that…”

Answer 41

“…had made her, as it were, doubly his own… she has in a way become both wife and child to him.” (Aiii)

Question 42

(Nora) “You have never…”

Answer 42

“…loved me, you have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.” (Aiii)

Question 43

(Nora) “I have been…”

Answer 43

“…your doll wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll child; and here the children have been my dolls.” (Aiii)

Question 44

(Nora) “It is no use…”

Answer 44

“…forbidding me any longer.” (Aiii)

Question 45

(Stage direction) “The sound of…

Answer 45

“…the door shutting is heard from below.” (Aiii)