Round 12: Tossup 5

In this play, two characters who compare themselves to shipwrecked sailors clinging to wreckage decide to get married after one takes the other's job. In this play, a broken hairpin is discovered by a mailbox that contains two letters marked with black crosses. (10[1])A year-long trip to Italy saved the life of a character from this play. In this play, (10[1])a fisher-girl costume is sewn so a character nicknamed “my little squirrel” (10[1])can dance the tarantella (10[1])at a ball. To keep (10[1])his bank job, Krogstad (10[1])blackmails (10[1])the protagonist (-5[1])of this play over forging her father’s (10[1])signature. For 10 points, the sound of a door slamming ends what Henrik Ibsen play about (10[1])Nora Helmer? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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