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QuizMultiple Choice

A Doll’s House, Part 2: Suspense and Irony

Question 7 • LHS English 10

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Nora: [quickly] He mustn't get the letter. Tear it up. I will find some means of getting money.Krogstad: Excuse me, Mrs. Helmer, but I think I told you just now—Nora: I am not speaking of what I owe you. Tell me what sum you are asking my husband for, and I will get the money.Krogstad: I am not asking your husband for a penny.Nora: What do you want, then?Krogstad: I will tell you. I want to rehabilitate myself, Mrs. Helmer; I want to get on; and in t

Answer
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Krogstad tells Nora that he has written a letter telling Helmer about her affair with the doctor.
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Krogstad refuses to forgive Helmer unless Nora finds a way to come up with more money.
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Krogstad tries to blackmail Nora into getting Helmer to keep him at the bank by exposing her forgery.
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Krogstad plans to take Helmer’s job managing the bank and ruin Nora’s reputation while doing so.

Explanation

Krogstad says he wants to rehabilitate himself and advance, and he is using Nora’s secret loan and forgery to pressure her. He wants her to persuade Helmer to keep him at the bank, threatening to expose the forgery if she does not. That matches the choice about blackmailing Nora over her forgery.

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