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

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