In Ibsen's A Doll's House, Helmer says: "Come, come, my little skylark must not droop her wings. What is this! Is my little squirrel out of temper?" What do these names show about how he sees his wife?

Helmer calls out from his room, "Is that my little lark twittering out there?" For the words "out there" to make sense, where must Helmer be as he speaks?

Before Torvald comes in, Nora puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth. Soon after, she tells him she has not visited the confectioner's. What does the action show that the dialogue never states?

Nora stops her old friend Christine and says, "Speak low. Suppose Torvald were to hear!" What does the line tell the audience about where Torvald is in that moment?

Helmer takes Nora "playfully by the ear" and says, "The same little featherhead!" What does the gesture together with the name show about this marriage that neither of them states?

Nora calls to her husband, "Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought." What does the word "here" commit the speaker to at that moment?

Nora is hiding under the table in a game with her children when Krogstad appears in the half-open doorway and says, "Excuse me, Mrs Helmer." What does this entrance do to the scene?

Helmer says, "My dear darling Nora, you are dancing as if your life depended on it." Nora answers, "So it does." What does the audience understand from her answer that Helmer does not?

A stage direction has Helmer turn toward the letter-box, Nora at the piano play the first bars of the Tarantella, and Helmer stop in the doorway. What does Nora's playing show that she never says?

Alone, Nora looks at her watch and counts: "Seven hours until midnight; and then four-and-twenty hours until the next midnight." Then she says, "Thirty-one hours to live." What has she quietly decided?

Doctor Rank tells Nora he will send his card with a black cross on it, "and then you will know that the loathsome end has begun." Two such cards later arrive. What does the card do that no spoken line does?

Late at night a knock is heard at the outer door, and a voice says, "It is I. May I come in for a moment?" Where must the speaker be standing for those words to work?

Reading Krogstad's second letter, Helmer cries, "I am saved! Nora, I am saved!" Nora asks, "And I?" He answers, "You too, of course." What does the order of his words show that he does not notice?

Helmer swears again and again that he has forgiven Nora everything. Nora answers, "Thank you for your forgiveness," and goes out through the door to the right. What is she doing under the polite words?

Nora goes out in her Tarantella costume and comes back "in everyday dress" for the last conversation of the play. What does this costume change carry that no line of dialogue states?

Nora says, "Sit down here, Torvald. You and I have much to say to one another," and sits down at one side of the table. What does the word "here" point to at that moment?

Nora tells Torvald, "our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child." What does the doll image name that earlier scenes only showed?

In A Doll's House, Nora answers Helmer's claim that no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves by saying that hundreds of thousands of women have done it.

Nora says, "I am going away from here now, at once." At this point in the play, what do the words "here" and "now" point to?

The last stage direction of the play is: "The sound of a door shutting is heard from below." What does this sound do that a closing speech could not?