Elements and Characterization Exam
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Read the passage from A Doll's House.
Krogstad: I had left the date blank; that is to say, your father should himself have
inserted the date on which he signed the paper. Do you remember that?
Nora: Yes, I think I remember—
Krogstad: Then I gave you the bond to send by post to your father. Is that not so?
Nora: Yes.
Krogstad: And you naturally did so at once, because five or six days afterwards you
brought me the bond with your father's signature. And then I gave you the money.
Nora: Well, haven't I been paying it off regularly?
Krogstad: Fairly so, yes. But—to come back to the matter in hand—that must have been
a very trying time for you, Mrs. Helmer?
Nora: It was, indeed.
Krogstad: Your father was very ill, wasn't he?
Nora: He was very near his end.
Krogstad: And died soon afterwards?
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, Nora: Yes.
Krogstad: Tell me, Mrs. Helmer, can you by any chance remember what day your father
died? —on what day of the month, I me - ✔✔C
Read the passage from A Doll's House.
Helmer: That is like a woman! But seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that.
No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that
depends on borrowing and debt. We two have kept bravely on the straight road so far,
and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any
struggle.
Nora: [moving towards the stove]. As you please, Torvald.
Helmer: [following her]. Come, come, my little skylark must not droop her wings. What
is this! Is my little squirrel out of temper? [Taking out his purse.] Nora, what do you
think I have got here?
Nora: [turning around quickly]. Money!
Helmer: There you are. [Gives her some money.] Do you think I don't know what a lot
is wanted for housekeeping at Christmas-time?
Nora: [counting]. Ten shillings—a pound—two pounds! Thank you, thank you,
Torvald; that will keep me going for a long time.
Helm - ✔✔B
Read the passage from A Doll's House.
Helmer: Nora! [Goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] The same little
featherhead! Suppose, now, that I borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in
the Christmas week, and then on New Year's Eve a slate fell on my head and killed me,
and—
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