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. A year-long trip to Italy saved the life of a character from this play. (-5[1])In this play, a fisher-girl (10[1])costume is sewn so a character nicknamed “my little (10[1])squirrel” (10[1])can dance the tarantella at a ball. To keep his bank job, Krogstad blackmails the protagonist of this play over forging her (10[1])father’s signature. For 10 points, the sound of a door slamming ends what Henrik (10[1])Ibsen play about Nora (10[1])Helmer? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: A Doll’s House [or Et dukkehjem]
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