Hedda quiz

Question 1

Who raised Tesman?

Answer 1

Aunt Julle and Rina

Question 2

What is Tesman’s academic specialty?

Answer 2

Histoy

Question 3

What kind of book has Ejlert just published?

Answer 3

A history of the world

Question 4

Where did Hedda acquire her pistols?

Answer 4

They belonged to General Gabler.

Question 5

Where did Ibsen live most of his life?

Answer 5

Italy and Germany

Question 6

In what year was Hedda Gabler completed?

Answer 6

1890

Question 7

For how many months did the Tesmans’ honeymoon last?

Answer 7

6

Question 8

What did Hedda think of her honeymoon?

Answer 8

It was boring.

Question 9

To whom is Mrs. Elvsted married?

Answer 9

The District Magistrate

Question 10

What is Ejlert’s manuscript about?

Answer 10

The future

Question 11

What does Aunt Juju bring Tesman?

Answer 11

his slippers

Question 12

Which of the following sentences is most true about Judge Brack?

Answer 12

He hosts parties to which only men are invited.

Question 13

How does Hedda drive Ejlert to drink?

Answer 13

by suggesting that Mrs. Elvsted doubts his self-discipline

Question 14

Which of the following terms best describes Bertha?

Answer 14

Eager to please

Question 15

Of what does Tesman declare himself jealous?

Answer 15

the manuscript Ejlert has written

Question 16

At whom does Hedda pretend to shoot?

Answer 16

Brack

Question 17

How has Tesman come to possess Ejlert’s manuscript?

Answer 17

Ejlert dropped it while drunkenly walking the streets.

Question 18

Which of the following is explicitly made clear in the play?

Answer 18

Ejlert used to love Hedda.

Question 19

What are Mrs. Elvsted’s thoughts upon hearing that Ejlert has “destroyed” his manuscript?

Answer 19

She says the action was akin to killing a child.

Question 20

What happens while Ejlert and Tesman are at Brack’s party?

Answer 20

Hedda falls asleep.

Question 21

When the play begins, Tesman assumes Ejlert is no longer an academic rival because:

Answer 21

He has become an alcoholic.

Question 22

Whom does Hedda call “the cock of the yard”?

Answer 22

Judge Brack

Question 23

What do Hedda and Ejlert pretend to do when they are found talking together?

Answer 23

look at pictures from the honeymoon

Question 24

How is Hedda Gabler structured

Answer 24

Into four acts

Question 25

What is Hedda’s last act before she dies?

Answer 25

She plays the piano.

Question 26

When was Henrik Ibsen Born?

Answer 26

1828

Question 27

Ibsen was a significant part of an artistic renaissance in ___.

Answer 27

Norway

Question 28

Ibsen studied ___ before becoming a playwright.

Answer 28

Medicine

Question 29

What was Ibsen’s first play?

Answer 29

The Vikings at Helgeland

Question 30

Where was Ibsen living when he wrote the plays that established his reputation?

Answer 30

Italy

Question 31

All of the play takes place in, or adjacent to, the Tesmans’ ____.

Answer 31

Living room

Question 32

Who plays Ejlert and Mrs. Elvsted against each other, making Ejlert think Mrs. Elvsted was worried he would begin drinking again?

Answer 32

Hedda

Question 33

Brack reports that after Tesman left the party, the drunken Ejlert got ____.

Answer 33

Arrested

Question 34

Whose funeral are the characters dressed for at the beginning of Act 4?

Answer 34

Aunt Rina’s

Question 35

How does Hedda kill herself?

Answer 35

Shooting

Question 36

Hedda Gabler is descended from a famous ___.

Answer 36

General

Question 37

What discipline does Tesman study?

Answer 37

History

Question 38

At the beginning of the play, who does Aunt Julle live with?

Answer 38

Aunt Rina

Question 39

Ejlert Lövborg became an outcast after a series of scandals involving ___.

Answer 39

Drinking

Question 40

Who works as Ejlert’s personal secretary?

Answer 40

Mrs. Elvsted

Question 41

Who has mortgaged an annuity in order to pay for the Tesmans’ new house?

Answer 41

Aunt Juju

Question 42

When Hedda first appears in the play, she is complaining that the maid ____.

Answer 42

Opened the windows

Question 43

Hedda comments on the ugliness of Aunt Julle’s ___.

Answer 43

Hat

Question 44

What does Hedda suggest that Tesman go do, in order to get him out of the room?

Answer 44

Write a long letter

Question 45

How long have the Elvsteds been married?

Answer 45

5 years

Question 46

Mrs. Elvsted claims that Ejlert once dated a woman who, when they broke up, wanted to ___.

Answer 46

shoot him

Question 47

Who arrives to talk to Tesman as Hedda is showing Mrs. Elvsted out?

Answer 47

Judge Brack

Question 48

What does Hedda say is the one thing she has to amuse herself?

Answer 48

Her pistols

Question 49

When Hedda calls out a greeting to Judge Brack through the window, what does she do?

Answer 49

Pretends to shoot him

Question 50

Who is Tesman away visiting when Judge Brack meets with Hedda?

Answer 50

Aunt juju

Question 51

Hedda says that she married Tesman because she was ___.

Answer 51

Tired of being single

Question 52

How does Hedda describe her expensive house to Judge Brack?

Answer 52

A joke

Question 53

What does Hedda wish that Tesman would get involved with?

Answer 53

Politics

Question 54

When Tesman includes Hedda in his excitement, how does she feel?

Answer 54

Resentful

Question 55

At the Tesmans’, what drink does Ejlert initially refuse, but eventually accept?

Answer 55

Punch

Question 56

Why did Hedda break up with Ejlert?

Answer 56

It got too serious/ threatened to turn into a sexual relationship

Question 57

Hedda says that Ejlert will return from the party with ___ in his hair.

Answer 57

Vine leaves