ADH

Question 1

‘mine, mine alone…

Answer 1

…all mine’
Torvald - Act 3

Question 2

‘A wife can’t borrow money…

Answer 2

…without her husband’s consent’

Christine to Nora - Act 1

Question 3

‘my most…

Answer 3

….treasured possession’
Torvald Act 3

Question 4

‘something glorious…

Answer 4

…is about to happen’

Nora (end of act 2)

Question 5

‘forget…

Answer 5

…happiness’

Torvald (beginning of act 3)

Question 6

‘it’s about saving the remains…

Answer 6

…the wreckage, the appearance’

Torvald (beginning of act 3)

Question 7

‘I have been…

Answer 7

…performing tricks for you’

Nora (end of act 3)

Question 8

‘it’s because of you…

Answer 8

…that I’ve made nothing of my life’

Nora - Act 3 (end)

Question 9

‘the squanderbird is a pretty little creature…

Answer 9

…but what an expensive pet she is for a man to keep.’

Torvald

Question 10

‘A songbird must have a clean beak to…

Answer 10

…chirp with - no false notes’

Torvald

Question 11

‘No debts! Never borrow!…

Answer 11

… A home founded on debts and borrowing can never be a place of freedom and beauty’

Torvald

Question 12

‘Is it against the law…

Answer 12

…to save my husbands life?’

Nora

Question 13

‘He’s so proud…

Answer 13

…of being a man’

Nora

Question 14

‘You’re a child Nora’ …

Answer 14

…‘You shouldn’t say that so patronisingly’

Question 15

‘A guilty man that has to lie…

Answer 15

…has to wear a mask’

Question 16

‘Your squirrel would run about…

Answer 16

…and do all her tricks if you would be nice, and do what she wants.’

Nora

Question 17

‘Your skylark would chirp about…

Answer 17

…in every room, with her song rising and falling’

Question 18

N: ‘I would play the fairy…

Answer 18

…and dance for you in the moonlight, Torvald.’

cloying, saccharine,

Question 19

SD: ‘pops the bag…

Answer 19

…of macaroons in her pocket and wipes her mouth.’

Question 20

N: ‘You’re always right’…

Answer 20

… T: ‘Now my little songbird’s talking like a real human being’

N.B: use of ‘my’ not ‘you’. Possessive

Question 21

K: ‘Kick me off that ladder…

Answer 21

…and back into the dirt’

Question 22

‘unspeakably…

Answer 22

…empty’

Mrs Linde

Question 23

SD: ‘flicks him on the ear…

Answer 23

…with her stockings Take that’
Nora to Rank

Question 24

N: ‘Dr Rank that was…

Answer 24

…really horrid of you’

Question 25

'He won't dare...

Answer 25

...risk a scandal' Krogstad

Question 26

'float up again...

Answer 26

...ugly, unrecognisable, hairless' Krogstad to Nora

Question 27

T: 'a hypocrit...

Answer 27

...a liar...a criminal'

Question 28

What has Linde sacrificed for her loved ones?

Answer 28

- Her youth, perhaps this is why she feels without direction.

Question 29

T: 'I am...

Answer 29

...saved'

Question 30

N: 'I never had any opinions...

Answer 30

...but his'

Question 31

**''Your ___ wife'' ''Papa's ___ child''**

Answer 31

- Doll

Question 32

N: 'my duty...

Answer 32

...towards myself'

Question 33

N: 'I must make up my mind, which is right...

Answer 33

...society or me?'

Question 34

T: 'Who would gladly...

Answer 34

...lay down his life for you'

Question 35

T: 'we must merely strive...

Answer 35

...to save what shreds and tatters - [bell rings]'

Question 36

T: 'we are saved, Nora...

Answer 36

... No one can harm you now'

Question 37

T: 'you are first and foremost a...

Answer 37

...wife and mother'

Question 38

How does Dr. Rank describe Krogstad?

Answer 38

'rotten' and 'a moral cripple'

Question 39

Aside from feminism, what other social concept does ADH consider?

Answer 39

The heteronormative family unit, everyone else is socially deviant

Question 40

How has previous staging of the play shown the removal of artifice/facades?

Answer 40

- Furniture was gradually removed, leaving Nora and Torvald in a nearly empty room.

Question 41

How did Ronald Gray interpret the play?

Answer 41

- He believed Nora's 'leave-taking' to be 'too theatrical' - He suggests Torvald's character is too exaggerated ('grotesque') to be taken seriously. - He suggests that the themes are too obvious, taking away from a subtler portrayal of domestic life.

Question 42

'it was almost like...

Answer 42

...being a man' act 1

Question 43

What does Mrs Linde permit Nora to do?

Answer 43

Tell the truth, she is momentarily alleviated of her burden. She feels less compelled to hide behind the façade of expectations and social class.

Question 44

'we're going to have...

Answer 44

...heaps and heaps of money (A1)'

Question 45

Linde: 'one has no one to work for but...

Answer 45

...one has to be constantly sponging for jobs'

Question 46

Linde: 'you know so little of the worries ...

Answer 46

...and hardships of life' A1

Question 47

'he's so proud of...

Answer 47

...being a man - it'd be so painful and humiliating for him to know that he owed anything to me'

Question 48

'dance and dress up...

Answer 48

...and play the fool for him

Question 49

'moral cripple...

Answer 49

...morally twisted'

Question 50

'little Miss...

Answer 50

... independent'

Question 51

'his father was a frightful creature...

Answer 51

...who kept mistresses and so on'