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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.

A
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 3 of A Doll’s House.Nora: In all these eight years—longer than that—from the very beginning of our acquaintance, we have never exchanged a word on any serious subject.Helmer: Was it likely that I would be continually and forever telling you about worries that you could not help me to bear?Nora: I am not speaking about business matters. I say that we have never sat down in earnest together to try and get at the bottom of anything.Helmer: But, dearest Nora, would it have been any good to you?Nora: That is just it; you have never understood me. I have been greatly wronged, Torvald—first by papa and then by you.

A
The conflict between Nora and Helmer shows how men and women could not agree on issues or successfully work together to solve important problems.
B
The conflict between Nora and Helmer shows how gender roles were defined, as Helmer has complete control over everything, including what the couple discusses.
C
The conflict between Nora and Helmer shows how men attempted to limit women’s economic freedoms, causing Nora to lie about how she obtained money.
D
The conflict between Nora and Helmer shows how women who ended marriages had no rights, leading Nora to have to hide her true feelings in order to stay married.
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Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.BOBO: Man . . . I didn't go to no Springfield, yesterday.WALTER (halted, life hanging in the moment): Why not?BOBO (the long way, the hard way to tell): 'Cause I didn't have no reasons to . . .WALTER: Man, what are you talking about!BOBO: I'm talking about the fact that when I got to the train station yesterday morning—eight o'clock like we planned . . . Man—Willy didn't never show up.WALTER: Why . . . where was he . . . where is he?BOBO: That's what I'm trying to tell you . . . I don't know . . . I waited six hours . . . I called his house . . . and I waited . . . six hours . . . I waited in that train station six hours . . . (Breaking into tears.) That was all the extra money I had in the world . . . (Looking up at WALTER with the tears running down his face.) Man, Willy is gone.

A
impatience and frustration because Willy never arrives on time
B
sadness and regret because he is grieving Willy, who recently died
C
shock and disbelief because Willy has stolen his and Walter's money
D
awe and surprise because he has no idea why Willy left town
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Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.BENEATHA goes to the door and opens it as WALTER and RUTH go on with the clowning. BENEATHA is somewhat surprised to see a quiet-looking middle-aged white man in a business suit holding his hat and a briefcase in his hand and consulting a small piece of paper.MAN: Uh—how do you do, miss, I am looking for a Mrs.— (He looks at the slip of paper.) Mrs. Lena Younger? (He stops short, struck dumb at the sight of the oblivious WALTER and RUTH.)BENEATHA (smoothing her hair with slight embarrassment): Oh—yes, that's my mother. Excuse me. (She closes the door and turns to quiet the other two.) Ruth! Brother! (Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There's a white man at the door!" They stop dancing. RUTH cuts off the phonograph, BENEATHA opens the door. The man casts a curious quick glance at all of them.) Uh—come in please. MAN (coming in): Thank you.

A
Showing respect for strangers is essential for resolving conflicts with them.
B
People should use the same manners with strangers and their own families.
C
People may speak to one another politely and still be divided by issues of race.
D
Serious people struggle to develop relationships with easygoing people.
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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.

A
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 2 of A Doll’s House.Nurse: Oh well, young children easily get accustomed to anything. Nora: Do you think so? Do you think they would forget their mother if she went away altogether?Nurse: Good heavens!—went away altogether?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.

A
“Oh well, young children easily get accustomed to anything."
B
“Do you think they would forget their mother if she went away altogether?”
C
“How could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers?”
D
“I want you to tell me something I have often wondered about”
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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.

A
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.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 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.

A
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 excerpt from act 1 of A Doll’s House.Mrs. Linde: Yes, but your father gave you the necessary funds.Nora: [smiling] Yes, that is what Torvald and all the others think, but—Mrs. Linde: But—Nora: Papa didn't give us a shilling. It was I who procured the money.Mrs. Linde: You? All that large sum?Nora: Two hundred and fifty pounds. What do you think of that?Mrs. Linde: But, Nora, how could you possibly do it? Did you win a prize in the Lottery?Nora: [contemptuously] In the Lottery? There would have been no credit in that.Mrs. Linde: But where did you get it from, then?Nora: [humming and smiling with an air of mystery]. Hm, hm! Aha!Mrs. Linde: Because you couldn't have borrowed it.Nora: Couldn't I? Why not?Mrs. Linde: No, a wife cannot borrow without her husband's consent.Nora: [tossing her head] Oh, if it is a wife who has any head for business—a wife who has the wit to be a little bit clever—

A
As a woman, Nora is supposed to do whatever it takes to save her husband, but she cannot act alone.
B
As a woman, Nora cannot borrow money, but she does so behind her husband’s back in order to save him.
C
As a woman, Nora cannot discuss money with men, so she does not reveal her actions to her husband.
D
As a woman, Nora is supposed to be flawless, so she must hide from her husband any mistake she makes.
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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.

A
“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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What dramatic irony occurs in this passage? Select two options.

A
Helmer thinks that Nora's worry about him is related to his reputation and is a sign of her love for him, while the audience knows that it is the risk she took to get a loan that shows her love.
B
Nora thinks that Helmer will be furious with her for taking out a loan to help him, but the audience knows that Helmer loves Nora enough to forgive her for committing a crime to save him.
C
Nora thinks that Krogstad has written in the letter that she is having an affair, and is afraid that Helmer will find out, while the audience knows that Krogstad has written about the loan.
D
Helmer thinks that Krogstad is angry at Nora, and he wants to protect his wife, while the audience knows that it is Nora who is angry at Krogstad and has inside information about his lies.
E
Helmer thinks that Krogstad's vengeance will be against him, but the audience knows that Krogstad will take vengeance against Nora and her reputation as an honest woman.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: Tell me, is it really true that you did not love your husband? Why did you marry him?Mrs. Linde: My mother was alive then, and was bedridden and helpless, and I had to provide for my two younger brothers; so I did not think I was justified in refusing his offer.Nora: No, perhaps you were quite right. He was rich at that time, then?Mrs. Linde: I believe he was quite well off. But his business was a precarious one; and, when he died, it all went to pieces and there was nothing left.

A
by revealing that Mrs. Linde felt that she had to accept her husband’s proposal
B
by introducing the conflict that Mrs. Linde was not in love with her husband
C
by showing that Mrs. Linde played a large role in her husband’s business
D
by describing how Mrs. Linde’s rejected the proposal to care for her family
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Which views from the late 1800s does this passage best support? Select two options.

A
Society considered women to be lesser than men.
B
Men had much greater economic freedom than women.
C
Women who challenged societal norms were considered outcasts.
D
Women who ended marriages could not keep any property.
E
Men often considered women to be their personal property.
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Which statement best describes how an author uses indirect characterization?

A
The author uses explicit statements to tell the audience about a character.
B
The author uses scenery and lighting to tell the audience about a character.
C
The author uses actions, thoughts, and speech to reveal character traits to an audience.
D
The author uses other characters’ thoughts to reveal character traits to an audience.
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What is the theme of a text?

A
the writer's selection of particular words and phrases to convey tone and meaning
B
the attitude of a work of literature or other text toward a certain subject or topic
C
the subject or area of concern on which a work of literature or other text focuses
D
the message a text conveys about a topic that could apply to other literature or to life
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To show situations in which something might happen, use the

A
subjunctive mood.
B
interrogative mood.
C
indicative mood.
D
conditional mood.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s House.Nora: Really! Did a big dog run after you? But it didn't bite you? No, dogs don't bite nice little dolly children. You mustn't look at the parcels, Ivar. What are they? Ah, I daresay you would like to know. No, no—it's something nasty! Come, let us have a game! What shall we play at? Hide and Seek? Yes, we'll play Hide and Seek. Bob shall hide first. Must I hide? Very well, I'll hide first. [She and the children laugh and shout, and romp in and out of the room; at last NORA hides under the table, the children rush in and out for her, but do not see her; they hear her smothered laughter, run to the table, lift up the cloth and find her. Shouts of laughter. She crawls forward and pretends to frighten them. Fresh laughter. Meanwhile there has been a knock at the hall door, but none of them has noticed it. The door is half opened, and KROGSTAD appears, he waits a little; the game goes on.]Krogstad: Excuse me, Mrs. Helmer:Nora: [with a stifled cry, turns round and gets up on to her knees] Ah! what do you want?Krogstad: Excuse me, the outer door was ajar; I suppose someone forgot to shut it.Nora: [rising] My husband is out, Mr. Krogstad.

A
They show that Nora goes from playing happily with her children to being startled by Krogstad, an unwelcome visitor.
B
They show that Nora, the children, and Krogstad are on the stage at the same time and are communicating with one another.
C
They show that Nora has to take care of her children without the help of her husband, Torvald, and resents it greatly.
D
They show that Krogstad is familiar to the family and is a frequent visitor, so he can walk in without knocking.
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Study the poster created by the US Navy during World War II.

Question illustration
A
to convince more people to enlist in the Navy
B
to inspire unity in the fight against the Nazis
C
to elicit awareness of the symbol used by Nazis
D
to encourage the Navy to make a star its new symbol
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Which lines of dialogue develop the idea that racially charged confrontations can have a sudden and unpleasant impact? Select three options.

A
"I don't suppose that you feel"
B
"Ain’t this the living gall!"
C
"They don't do it like that anymore."
D
“All we paid and then some.”
E
"Lord, Lord, Lord . . ."

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