Act Three

Question 1

A line from the opening stage directions of Act 3 regarding the status of one of the doors in the house

Answer 1

“The door to the hall stands open.”

Answer 2

“It’s the old story, isn’t it - a woman chucking a man because something better turns up?”

Answer 3

”Helmer leads Nora almost forcibly into the hall.”

Answer 4

“An exit should always be dramatic”

Answer 5

“Soon I shall sleep”

Answer 6

“I pretend to myself that you’re my secret mistress, my clandestine little sweetheart”

Answer 7

“young and trembling”

Answer 8

“Don’t want, don’t want - ? Aren’t I your husband?”

Answer 9

“What a happy, peaceful home you two have.”

Answer 10

“Scientific experiment! Those are big words for my little Nora to use!”

Answer 11

“I wish some terrible danger might threaten you, so that I could offer my life and blood, everything, for your sake.”

Answer 12

”Nora is silent and stares unblinkingly at him”

Answer 13

“I am condemned to humiliation and ruin simply for the weakness of a woman.”

Answer 14

“Now do you realise what you’ve done to me?”

Answer 15

“I am saved!”

Answer 16

“I would not to a true man if your feminine helplessness did make you doubly attractive in my eyes.”

Answer 17

“Taking off my fancy dress.”

Answer 18

“she is now not only his wife, but also his child”

Answer 19

“I’ve been your doll-wife, just as I used to be papa’s doll-child.”

Answer 20

“First and foremost you are a wife and mother.”
“I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, like you”

Answer 21

“But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves.”
“Millions of women have done it.”

Answer 22

”The street door is slammed shut downstairs.”