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?
The presence of ghosts

Secret keeping

Hereditary disease

Incestuous relationships
2 The Ibsen family's move to Venstøp in Henrik's youth allegedly did all of the following EXCEPT:
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"

Further alienate a young Henrik from mainstream society
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?
Both of these

Neither of these

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

Henrik Ibsen's encounters with rumors that he was truly Tormond Knudsen's son
4 Who financially supported Ibsen for much of his time as a young creative in Christiana?
His father, who had come back into money through trade

His mentor and employer, Ole Bull

His wife Suzannah Thorsen

His close friend, Ole Schulerud
5 A turning point in Ibsen's dramatic career came when he moved abroad with his family to:
England

Italy

Spain

France
6 A common feature of "Brand" and "Peer Gynt," two of Ibsen's early successes is that:
They were both turned into operas by Edvard Grieg.

They are both closet dramas.

They were written when Ibsen was cheating on his wife.

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 turn towards symbolism and psychological realism

Its foregrounding of tragicomic elements

Its lack of focus on a distinct and discrete social issue

Its focus on the integrity of the family unit
8 Ibsen's later plays are primarily read as being:
More focused on class than his earlier works

More comedic than his earlier works

More autobiographical and reflective than his earlier works

More abstract 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?
George Bernard Shaw

W. S. Gilbert

Oscar Wilde

J. M. Synge
10 When writing "The Wild Duck," Ibsen was worried that the play would be drowned out by what?
The aftermath of Krakatoa's eruption

The geopolitical importance of the Berlin Conference

The growing debate in Norway over parliamentarianism

The publication of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace"
11 Ibsen's writer's block while writing "The Wild Duck" was alleviated when what happened?
Ibsen was introduced to a young woman who inspired the figure of Gina in the play.

Ibsen faced desperate financial hardships.

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

Ibsen was left alone when Suzannah went away to treat her rheumatism and gout.
12 The character of Hedvig in "The Wild Duck" was inspired by:
One of Ibsen's old, female friends from his intellectual circle in Christiana

Hildur Andersen, Ibsen's mistress

The daughter of an expatriate sculptor that Ibsen met while abroad

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 resemblance seen by most critics between Old Ekdal and Knud Ibsen, Henrik's father

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
14 The play's opening lines betwen Pettersen and Jensen most emphasizes:
The stark gender gap between these two men and Mrs. Sörby

The centrality of rumor and gossip in the society dramatized by the play

The destitute conditions of servants in the society dramatized by the play

The estrangement of Gregers Werle from Hialmar Ekdal
15 At the beginning of Act 1, how long has it been since Gregers and Hialmar have seen one another?
15 years

About 1 year

20 years

10 years
16 What image is used—both in Act 1 and throughout the play—to evoke the idea of being an outsider?
Lumber, which is deconstructed and picked apart like a social outsider

Military uniform, which is only worn by characters in the play who are ostracized from society like Ekdal and Molvik

Being 13 at table, one more than the traditional 12

Wine, which turns people into drunken pariahs like Old Ekdal
17 In the time that Gregers has been away, Werle has done all of the following for Hialmar EXCEPT:
Pay for his instruction in photography

Pay for the adoption of Hialmar's daughter, Hedvig

Introduce him to his current wife, Gina Hansen

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:
Asking him to cut their cigars for them

Talking with him about wine

Encouraging him to bring some of his photographs to dinner

Asking him to declaim poetry for the party's entertainment
19 How does Hialmar react to seeing his father emerge with Gråberg from Werle's study?
He runs to escort his frail father out of filial piety.

He leaves immediately, even before his father, out of embarrassment.

He cordially greets his father, then ignores him.

He is shocked and dismayed at his father's appearance, and he pretends not to recognize him.
20 How does Gregers Werle know Hialmar's wife, Gina?
Gina is a distant relative of Mrs. Sörby's.

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.
21 After Old Ekdal exits through the party, what does Mrs. Sörby do to him?
Give him a stern chiding

Escort him firmly and aggressively off the premises

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

Gift him a bottle of alcohol as a kind of charity
22 In Gregers' conversation with his father, all of the following are revealed EXCEPT:
That it was really Werle who felled timber illegally and not Ekdal, and that Werle had Ekdal framed

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 Werle allegedly had an affair with Gina, and that setting her up with Hialmar may have been an attempt to tie off loose ends

The true paternity of Hialmar's child, Hedvig
23 At the end of Act 1, Gregers tells his father that he believes Hialmar's mind to be:
Noble and childlike

Moral but lazy

Simple but untrustworthy

Complex and scheming
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

Expose him to the truth of his family circumstances

Have Werle banished from town, so that Hialmar need not rely on his charity

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

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

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