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Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll's House.Helmer: How unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, Nora! Have you not been happy here?Nora: No, I have never been happy. I thought I was, but it has never really been so.Helmer: Not—not happy!Nora: No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald.

A
Helmer is going to change how he treats Nora.
B
Helmer is going to leave Nora and the children.
C
Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children.
D
Nora is going to tell Helmer to treat her better.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: But it was absolutely necessary that he should not know! My goodness, can't you understand that? It was necessary he should have no idea what a dangerous condition he was in. It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger, and that the only thing to save him was to live in the south. Do you suppose I didn't try, first of all, to get what I wanted as if it were for myself? I told him how much I should love to travel abroad like other young wives; I tried tears and entreaties with him; I told him that he ought to remember the condition I was in, and that he ought to be kind and indulgent to me; I even hinted that he might raise a loan. That nearly made him angry, Christine. He said I was thoughtless, and that it was his duty as my husband not to indulge me in my whims and caprices—as I believe he called them. Very well, I thought, you must be saved—and that was how I came to devise a way out of the difficulty— Mrs. Linde: And did your husband never get to know from your father that the money had not come from him? Nora: No, never. Papa died just at that time. I had meant to let him into the secret and beg him never to reveal it. But he was so ill then—alas, there never was any need to tell him.Mrs. Linde: And since then have you never told your secret to your husband?Nora: Good Heavens, no! How could you think so? A man who has such strong opinions about these things! And besides, how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me anything! It would upset our mutual relations altogether; our beautiful happy home would no longer be what it is now.

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“no idea what a dangerous condition he was in”
B
“how I came to devise a way out of the difficulty”
C
“I had meant to let him in on the secret”
D
“It would upset our mutual relations altogether”
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Helmer: [calls out from his room]. Is that my little lark twittering out there?Nora: [busy opening some of the parcels]. Yes, it is!Helmer: Is it my little squirrel bustling about?Nora: Yes!Helmer: When did my squirrel come home?Nora: Just now. [Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.] Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought.Helmer: Don't disturb me. [A little later, he opens the door and looks into the room, pen in hand.] Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?Nora: Yes but, Torvald, this year we really can let ourselves go a little. This is the first Christmas that we have not needed to economize.

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They tell the reader that Torvald opens his door only when he realizes that Nora has spent money.
B
They tell the reader that Torvald uses pet names for Nora and treats her like a child.
C
They show the reader that Torvald thinks that Nora bought too much.
D
They show the reader that Torvald prefers his pets over his wife.
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Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll's House.Mrs. Linde: We have a great deal to talk about.Krogstad: I shouldn't have thought so.Mrs. Linde: No, you have never properly understood me.Krogstad: Was there anything else to understand except what was obvious to all the world—a heartless woman jilts a man when a more lucrative chance turns up?Mrs. Linde: Do you believe I am as absolutely heartless as all that? And do you believe that I did it with a light heart?Krogstad: Didn't you?Mrs. Linde: Nils, did you really think that?Krogstad: If it were as you say, why did you write to me as you did at the time?Mrs. Linde: I could do nothing else. As I had to break with you, it was my duty also to put an end to all that you felt for me.Krogstad [wringing his hands]. So that was it. And all this—only for the sake of money!Mrs. Linde: You must not forget that I had a helpless mother and two little brothers. We couldn't wait for you, Nils; your prospects seemed hopeless then.Krogstad: That may be so, but you had no right to throw me over for anyone else's sake.Mrs. Linde: Indeed, I don't know. Many a time did I ask myself if I had the right to do it.

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Mrs. Linde knows that she has always loved Krogstad, and so does the audience, but Krogstad does not know this at the beginning of the scene.
B
Mrs. Linde knows that she is taking Krogstad's job, and so does the audience, but Krogstad does not know that this will happen.
C
Krogstad has always been in love with Mrs. Linde, and the audience knows it, but Mrs. Linde does not know this at the beginning of the scene.
D
Krogstad is going to try to take his job back from Mrs. Linde, and the audience knows it, but Mrs. Linde does not know that this will happen.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: Nurse, I want you to tell me something I have often wondered about—how could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?Nurse: I was obliged to, if I wanted to be little Nora's Nurse.Nora: Yes, but how could you be willing to do it?Nurse: What, when I was going to get such a good place by it? A poor girl who has got into trouble should be glad to. Besides, that wicked man didn't do a single thing for me.Nora: But I suppose your daughter has quite forgotten you.Nurse: No, indeed she hasn't. She wrote to me when she was confirmed, and when she was married.

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The nurse’s willingness to take care of Nora when Nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work.
B
The nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself.
C
The fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever.
D
The nurse’s assurance to Nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.
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Read the excerpt from act 1 of 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—Nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. Oh! don't say such horrid things.Helmer: Still, suppose that happened, —what then?Nora: If that were to happen, I don't suppose I should care whether I owed money or not.Helmer: Yes, but what about the people who had lent it?Nora: They? Who would bother about them? I should not know who they were.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.

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Nora realizes that Helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him.
B
Nora realizes that she and Helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play.
C
Helmer realizes that Nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play.
D
Nora realizes that Helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Mrs. Linde: When you introduced him to me yesterday, he declared he had often heard my name mentioned in this house; but afterwards I noticed that your husband hadn't the slightest idea who I was. So how could Doctor Rank—?Nora: That is quite right, Christine. Torvald is so absurdly fond of me that he wants me absolutely to himself, as he says. At first he used to seem almost jealous if I mentioned any of the dear folk at home, so naturally I gave up doing so. But I often talk about such things with Doctor Rank, because he likes hearing about them.Mrs. Linde: Listen to me, Nora. You are still very like a child in many things, and I am older than you in many ways and have a little more experience. Let me tell you this—you ought to make an end of it with Doctor Rank.

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Helmer is going to become jealous of Doctor Rank.
B
Nora will tell Doctor Rank that she does not love him.
C
Nora will ask Doctor Rank for money to pay the debt.
D
Mrs. Linde will accuse Nora of having an affair.
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best

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All evidence should be reliable and varied, using personal experiences only when relevant.
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All evidence should be empirical and scientifically proven in order to be more persuasive.
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All evidence should be open to multiple interpretations to strongly support counterclaims.
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All evidence should be created by the writer to avoid the repetition and overuse of evidence.
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Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.This may be true or it may be false—who can say?—but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare's sister as I had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.

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Sixteenth-century women isolated themselves to avoid the ridicule of others.
B
In the 16th century, brilliant women faced isolation from their communities.
C
It is necessary to isolate oneself from society when writing great literary works.
D
Women in the 16th century were shunned for choosing to live in isolation.
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Rank: And what other nice things am I to be allowed to see?Nora: Not a single thing more, for being so naughty. [She looks among the things, humming to herself.]Rank: [after a short silence] When I am sitting here, talking to you as intimately as this, I cannot imagine for a moment what would have become of me if I had never come into this house.Nora: [smiling] I believe you do feel thoroughly at home with us.Rank: [in a lower voice, looking straight in front of him] And to be obliged to leave it all—Nora: Nonsense, you are not going to leave it.Rank: [as before] And not be able to leave behind one the slightest token of one's gratitude, scarcely even a fleeting regret—nothing but an empty place which the first comer can fill as well as any other.Nora: And if I asked you now for a—? No!Rank: For what?Nora: For a big proof of your friendship—Rank: Yes, yes!Nora: I mean a tremendously big favour—Rank: Would you really make me so happy for once?Nora: Ah, but you don't know what it is yet.Rank: No—but tell me.Nora: I really can't, Doctor Rank. It is something out of all reason; it means advice, and help, and a favour—Rank: The bigger a thing it is the better. I can't conceive what it is you mean. Do tell me. Haven't I your confidence?Nora: More than anyone else. I know you are my truest and best friend, and so I will tell you what it is. Well, Doctor Rank, it is something you must help me to prevent. You know how devotedly, how inexpressibly deeply Torvald loves me; he would never for a moment hesitate to give his life for me.

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Nora has been hiding her love for Doctor Rank.
B
Nora does not trust Doctor Rank’s sincerity.
C
Nora will force Doctor Rank into helping her
D
Nora is manipulating Doctor Rank for a favor.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: Well, then I have found other ways of earning money. Last winter I was lucky enough to get a lot of copying to do; so I locked myself up and sat writing every evening until quite late at night. Many a time I was desperately tired; but all the same it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager—a fat, looselipped man—guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted—you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft.

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the idea that writing was exhausting work for men and women alike
B
the idea that women were able to earn their independence by writing
C
the idea that women did not typically have the opportunity to do professional work
D
the idea that women felt pressured to make their own work the lowest priority
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What types of evidence support inferences about characters in a play? Select three options.characters’ thoughts and actionsthe number of characters on stagecharacters’ appearances and ways of dressingcharacters’ responses to other charactersthe names of the characters

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characters’ thoughts and actions
B
the number of characters on stage
C
characters’ appearances and ways of dressing
D
characters’ responses to other characters
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the names of the characters
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Mrs. Linde: Listen to me, Nora. You are still very like a child in many things, and I am older than you in many ways and have a little more experience. Let me tell you this—you ought to make an end of it with Doctor Rank.Nora: What ought I to make an end of?Mrs. Linde: Of two things, I think. Yesterday you talked some nonsense about a rich admirer who was to leave you money—Nora: An admirer who doesn't exist, unfortunately! But what then?Mrs. Linde: Is Doctor Rank a man of means?Nora: Yes, he is.Mrs. Linde: And has no one to provide for?Nora: No, no one; but—Mrs. Linde: And comes here everyday?Nora: Yes, I told you so.Mrs. Linde: But how can this well-bred man be so tactless?Nora: I don't understand you at all.Mrs. Linde: Don't prevaricate, Nora. Do you suppose I don't guess who lent you the two hundred and fifty pounds?

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The audience knows that Nora and Doctor Rank are having an affair, but Nora denies it.
B
The audience knows that Mrs. Linde is jealous of Nora, but Nora does not know this.
C
The audience knows that Krogstad loaned Nora money, but Mrs. Linde does not know this.
D
The audience knows that Doctor Rank loaned Nora money, but Nora denies this.
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Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without singing them, was often a woman. It was a woman Edward Fitzgerald, I think, suggested who made the ballads and the folk-songs, crooning them to her children, beguiling her spinning with them, or the length of the winter's night.

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The words’ neutral connotations indicate that women create better work when they remain anonymous.
B
The words’ negative connotations indicate that the work of women artists tends to be overly emotional.
C
The words’ positive connotations indicate that women’s artistic talent is greater than men’s talent.
D
The words’ positive connotations emphasize the beauty and skill in the work of a particular female artist.
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Rank: Let me play for her.Helmer [getting up]. Yes, do. I can correct her better then.[RANK sits down at the piano and plays. NORA dances more and more wildly. HELMER has taken up a position beside the stove, and during her dance gives her frequent instructions. She does not seem to hear him; her hair comes down and falls over her shoulders; she pays no attention to it, but goes on dancing. Enter MRS. LINDE:]Mrs. Linde: [standing as if spell-bound in the doorway] Oh!—Nora: [as she dances] Such fun, Christine!Helmer: My dear darling Nora, you are dancing as if your life depended on it.Nora: So it does.Helmer: Stop, Rank; this is sheer madness. Stop, I tell you! [RANK stops playing, and NORA suddenly stands still. HELMER goes up to her.] I could never have believed it. You have forgotten everything I taught you.Nora: [throwing away the tambourine]. There, you see.Helmer: You will want a lot of coaching.Nora: Yes, you see how much I need it. You must coach me up to the last minute. Promise me that, Torvald!Helmer: You can depend on me.

A
The audience knows that the tarantella is supposed to be wildly fast, but Helmer does not.
B
The audience knows that Nora is intentionally failing to dance correctly, but Helmer does not.
C
The audience knows that Helmer does not know how to dance, but Nora does not know this.
D
The audience knows that Doctor Rank loves Nora, but Helmer does not know that he does.
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Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.To have lived a free life in London in the sixteenth century would have meant for a woman who was poet and playwright a nervous stress and dilemma which might well have killed her. Had she survived, whatever she had written would have been twisted and deformed, issuing from a strained and morbid imagination.

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The negative connotations of the words emphasize the author’s feeling that societal norms damage women artists in severe and lasting ways.
B
The negative connotations of the words emphasize the unreasonable extent to which women artists are challenged by the demands of the creative process.
C
The positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s insistence that facing great challenges helps women enhance their creativity.
D
The positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s belief that women artists are strong enough to overcome tremendous hardships.
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Which statement best describes the dramatic structure of the play A Doll’s House?

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The dramatic structure of A Doll’s House states characters’ traits and qualities.
B
The dramatic structure of A Doll’s House has three acts, or plot divisions.
C
The dramatic structure of A Doll’s House provides background information for the plot.
D
The dramatic structure of A Doll’s House reveals a character’s qualities through actions.
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What is an effective claim in an argumentative essay?

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a true statement that can be proven using facts and cannot be countered
B
a direct statement that gives an opinion and includes at least two types of evidence
C
a brief statement that summarizes the major reasons and evidence in an argument
D
a clear statement that can be argued in favor of or against using reasoning
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Mrs. Linde: [goes on sewing. A short silence] Does Doctor Rank come here everyday?Nora: Everyday regularly. He is Torvald's most intimate friend, and a great friend of mine too. He is just like one of the family.Mrs. Linde: But tell me this—is he perfectly sincere? I mean, isn't he the kind of man that is very anxious to make himself agreeable?Nora: Not in the least. What makes you think that?Mrs. Linde: When you introduced him to me yesterday, he declared he had often heard my name mentioned in this house; but afterwards I noticed that your husband hadn't the slightest idea who I was. So how could Doctor Rank—?Nora: That is quite right, Christine. Torvald is so absurdly fond of me that he wants me absolutely to himself, as he says. At first he used to seem almost jealous if I mentioned any of the dear folk at home, so naturally I gave up doing so. But I often talk about such things with Doctor Rank, because he likes hearing about them.Mrs. Linde: Listen to me, Nora. You are still very like a child in many things, and I am older than you in many ways and have a little more experience. Let me tell you this—you ought to make an end of it with Doctor Rank.

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It has no impact, because Doctor Rank is a minor character in the plot and is not involved with Nora.
B
It has little impact, because Nora and Doctor Rank only interact with each other in one scene.
C
It has an important impact, because Nora decides that she should leave Helmer for the doctor.
D
It has a major impact, because it hints at the doctor's feelings for Nora and her attempt at manipulation.
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Which sentence correctly uses parallel structure?

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The boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, open tomorrow morning, and who can work on the holiday.
B
The boss wants to know who wants the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and if you will work on the holiday.
C
The boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and who can work on the holiday. ✓ Correct
D
The boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and which of us wants to work on the holiday.

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