SparkNotes: Ghosts: Quiz

Who fathered Regina?

(A) Captain Alving

(B) Pastor Manders

(C) Oswald

(D) Jakob Engstrand

Before she married Captain Alving, whom was Mrs. Alving most interested in?

(A) Jakob Engstrand

(B) Pastor Manders

(C) Krogstad

(D) Tesman

What sort of memorial is Mrs. Alving building to honor the late Captain?

(A) A school

(B) An orphans' asylum

(C) An establishment for sailors

(D) A garden

With what sort of institution does Jakob Engstrand compare his planned establishment for sailors?

(A) A school

(B) A soup kitchen

(C) A dormitory

(D) An asylum

Where did Ibsen live most of his life?

(A) Italy and Germany

(B) Poland

(C) Austria and Germany

(D) Norway

Ghosts was completed in:

(A) 1906

(B) 1828

(C) 1881

(D) 1890

Of what does Pastor Manders successfully convince Mrs. Alving?

(A) A snuffed out candle will not ignite wood shavings.

(B) She shouldn't tell Oswald about his father.

(C) She shouldn't insure the memorial.

(D) Engstrand doesn't deserve her money.

What knowledge does Pastor Manders believe will turn public opinion against him?

(A) His possible guilt in causing the fire

(B) The truth about Regina's heritage

(C) The fact that he and Mrs. Alving had an affair

(D) The fact that his speech about Captain Alving will be untruthful

Who is Johanna?

(A) a ghost

(B) the patron saint of a Norwegian port city

(C) a former lover of Oswald

(D) a former servant

Whose daughter does Engstrand believe Regina to be?

(A) a Chamberlain's

(B) a yachtsman's

(C) a common sailor's

(D) his own

What does Oswald do by profession?

(A) He is a student.

(B) He is a playboy.

(C) He is a painter.

(D) He is a musician.

Why is Regina hesitant to join Mrs. Alving and Oswald for champagne?

(A) Her father is an alcoholic.

(B) She knows Pastor Manders will catch her.

(C) She is always careful not to follow in her mother's footsteps.

(D) She doesn't want to forget her place as a servant.

Why does Oswald return home?

(A) He wants to honor his father, and his father's ghost has instructed him to come.

(B) He feels ill, and he wants to marry a Norwegian wife.

(C) The "joy of life" compels him to make his mother happy.

(D) He feels ill and wants to honor his father's memorial.

In which way does Oswald differ from his father?

(A) He drinks.

(B) He flirts with the maid.

(C) He has a compromised reputation.

(D) He smokes.

Which of the following does Pastor Manders condemn?

(A) Oswald's smoking habit

(B) Regina's heritage

(C) Mrs. Alving's attempt to falsely honor her dissolute husband

(D) Mrs. Alving's books

How does the weather change at the very end of Ghosts?

(A) The air fills with smoke.

(B) The sun comes out.

(C) Mist envelops the fjord.

(D) An avalanche destroys the asylum.

At the start of the play, Pastor Manders realizes which of the following facts?

(A) Captain Alving continued his debauchery even after his wife returned to him.

(B) Mrs. Alving was once interested in him romantically.

(C) Regina is Captain Alving's daughter.

(D) Mrs. Alving is a freethinker and supports the idea of couples living together unmarried.

What is Jakob Engstrand by profession?

(A) a bartender

(B) an asylum patient

(C) a carpenter working on an asylum

(D) a doctor in an asylum

Who is the last person to leave the ruins of the asylum?

(A) Mrs. Alving

(B) Pastor Manders

(C) Captain Alving

(D) Oswald

How does Mrs. Alving first learn that Oswald is flirting with Regina?

(A) Engstrand tells Pastor Manders.

(B) She catches them in the garden.

(C) She hears Regina resisting him in the dining room.

(D) She hears Oswald talking about her in a drunken delirium.

At the beginning of the play, Mrs. Alving expects Oswald to receive which of the following?

(A) Mander's blessing

(B) his father's inheritance

(C) Engstrand's blessing as Regina's husband

(D) her own inheritance

Which of the following words is not a good description of Mrs. Alving's feelings for the pastor?

(A) Admiration

(B) Distrust

(C) Affection

(D) Condescension

How does Oswald first appear?

(A) smoking a pipe

(B) smoking a cigar

(C) drinking chilled punch

(D) drinking champagne

How is Ghosts structured?

(A) into three acts, of two scenes each

(B) into four scenes

(C) into three acts

(D) into five acts of three scenes each

What does Oswald carry in order to be ready for emergencies?

(A) his father's pistols

(B) morphine pills

(C) a picture of Regina

(D) a silver cross