The Wild Duck Quizzes

The Wild Duck Quiz 1

1 The relationship of Ibsen's mother and father helped to foreground which theme in his mature works?
Hereditary disease

Secret keeping

Incestuous relationships

The presence of ghosts
2 The Ibsen family's move to Venstøp in Henrik's youth allegedly did all of the following EXCEPT:
Further alienate a young Henrik from mainstream society

Made the relationship of Henrik's parents quite hostile

Solidify Henrik's interest in professionally pursuing theater as a young man, as opposed to medicine

Inspire Henrik's creation of the garret in "The Wild Duck"
3 Of the two events below, which is/are alleged to be inspirations for the theme of illegitimate children running throughout Ibsen's later works?
Henrik Ibsen's encounters with rumors that he was truly Tormond Knudsen's son

Henrik Ibsen's fathering of his own illegitimate child with Else Jensdatter, a housekeeper

Both of these

Neither of these
4 Who financially supported Ibsen for much of his time as a young creative in Christiana?
His mentor and employer, Ole Bull

His father, who had come back into money through trade

His close friend, Ole Schulerud

His wife Suzannah Thorsen
5 A turning point in Ibsen's dramatic career came when he moved abroad with his family to:
Italy

France

England

Spain
6 A common feature of "Brand" and "Peer Gynt," two of Ibsen's early successes is that:
They were written when Ibsen was cheating on his wife.

They were both turned into operas by Edvard Grieg.

They are both closet dramas.

They both draw heavily on Finnish mythology.
7 "The Wild Duck" represents a turning point in Ibsen's style for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Its lack of focus on a distinct and discrete social issue

Its turn towards symbolism and psychological realism

Its focus on the integrity of the family unit

Its foregrounding of tragicomic elements
8 Ibsen's later plays are primarily read as being:
More focused on class than his earlier works

More autobiographical and reflective than his earlier works

More abstract than his earlier works

More comedic than his earlier works
9 Ibsen's popularity in Britain towards the end of his life was partially due to the influence of which other dramatist?
J. M. Synge

George Bernard Shaw

W. S. Gilbert

Oscar Wilde
10 When writing "The Wild Duck," Ibsen was worried that the play would be drowned out by what?
The publication of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace"

The aftermath of Krakatoa's eruption

The geopolitical importance of the Berlin Conference

The growing debate in Norway over parliamentarianism
11 Ibsen's writer's block while writing "The Wild Duck" was alleviated when what happened?
Ibsen was left alone when Suzannah went away to treat her rheumatism and gout.

A visit from a relative brought news of the family from Skien.

Ibsen faced desperate financial hardships.

Ibsen was introduced to a young woman who inspired the figure of Gina in the play.
12 The character of Hedvig in "The Wild Duck" was inspired by:
Hildur Andersen, Ibsen's mistress

The daughter of an expatriate sculptor that Ibsen met while abroad

One of Ibsen's old, female friends from his intellectual circle in Christiana

Ibsen's second child with Suzannah, a daughter
13 All of the following are elements in "The Wild Duck" which evoke Ibsen's own personal life EXCEPT:
The name of the Höidal works alluding to an ancestral region where Ibsen's family lived

The name Hedvig also being the name of Ibsen's younger sister, with whom he was close

The play's definitive setting in Skien, the home of Ibsen's family

The resemblance seen by most critics between Old Ekdal and Knud Ibsen, Henrik's father
14 The play's opening lines betwen Pettersen and Jensen most emphasizes:
The destitute conditions of servants in the society dramatized by the play

The estrangement of Gregers Werle from Hialmar Ekdal

The stark gender gap between these two men and Mrs. Sörby

The centrality of rumor and gossip in the society dramatized by the play
15 At the beginning of Act 1, how long has it been since Gregers and Hialmar have seen one another?
20 years

10 years

15 years

About 1 year
16 What image is used—both in Act 1 and throughout the play—to evoke the idea of being an outsider?
Wine, which turns people into drunken pariahs like Old Ekdal

Lumber, which is deconstructed and picked apart like a social outsider

Being 13 at table, one more than the traditional 12

Military uniform, which is only worn by characters in the play who are ostracized from society like Ekdal and Molvik
17 In the time that Gregers has been away, Werle has done all of the following for Hialmar EXCEPT:
Introduce him to his current wife, Gina Hansen

Pay for his instruction in photography

Pay for the adoption of Hialmar's daughter, Hedvig

Secretly contract his father, Old Ekdal, to do copy work—for which he is paid liberally
18 In Act 1, all of the following are ways in which the chamberlains try to condescendingly engage Hialmar EXCEPT:
Encouraging him to bring some of his photographs to dinner

Asking him to cut their cigars for them

Asking him to declaim poetry for the party's entertainment

Talking with him about wine
19 How does Hialmar react to seeing his father emerge with Gråberg from Werle's study?
He cordially greets his father, then ignores him.

He runs to escort his frail father out of filial piety.

He is shocked and dismayed at his father's appearance, and he pretends not to recognize him.

He leaves immediately, even before his father, out of embarrassment.
20 How does Gregers Werle know Hialmar's wife, Gina?
Gina was a servant in the Werle household while his mother was sick, and he had a relationship with Gina himself before going to the Höidal works.

Gina was a school friend of both he and Hialmar in their youth.

Gina was a servant in the Werle household while his mother was sick, and he believes that Gina and his father had an affair.

Gina is a distant relative of Mrs. Sörby's.
21 After Old Ekdal exits through the party, what does Mrs. Sörby do to him?
Give him a stern chiding

Gift him a bottle of alcohol as a kind of charity

Embrace him, revealing their secret affair behind Werle's back

Escort him firmly and aggressively off the premises
22 In Gregers' conversation with his father, all of the following are revealed EXCEPT:
The true paternity of Hialmar's child, Hedvig

That Gregers was invited back to town by Werle because the latter intends to marry Mrs. Sörby and wants his son to voice his public support of the union

That it was really Werle who felled timber illegally and not Ekdal, and that Werle had Ekdal framed

That Werle allegedly had an affair with Gina, and that setting her up with Hialmar may have been an attempt to tie off loose ends
23 At the end of Act 1, Gregers tells his father that he believes Hialmar's mind to be:
Complex and scheming

Noble and childlike

Simple but untrustworthy

Moral but lazy
24 By the end of Act 1, Gregers has resolved to do what for Hialmar?
Have Gina killed off, so that he may marry someone genuine

Teach him how to make a living in an industry other than photography

Expose him to the truth of his family circumstances

Have Werle banished from town, so that Hialmar need not rely on his charity
25 Each of the following details from Act 1 foreshadows Werle's genetic condition, revealed later in the play, EXCEPT:
The joke made by Mrs. Sörby to the chamberlains about sunshine

Mrs. Sörby's warning that Werle ought not to stare at the lights for the health of his eyes

Gregers's final words to his father that the chamberlains are playing blind-man's bluff

Werle's explicit claim to Gregers that his eyes are troubling hiim