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A play by this author ends with a voice calling “he is the God of Love” as a man dies in an avalanche. (20[2])Another (20[1])play (20[2])by this author ends (20[1])with the Button (20[3])Molder stating (20[2])“We (20[1])meet (20[1])at the final crossroads” as the protagonist (20[1])is cradled by Solveig (20[2])(“sool-VAY”). Another (20[1])play by this author ends with a man being called “the one cock in the basket” (20[1])and declaring (20[1])“people don’t (*) do such (10[1])things!” One play by this author of Brand ends with a man asking “The most wonderful thing of all?” (10[4])In a play by this author, George Tesman’s wife (10[1])shoots (10[1])herself in (10[1])the (10[1])head offstage. (10[1])A play (10[1])by this author ends (10[1])with a door slamming (10[1])as Nora Helmer (10[1])leaves her husband. (10[1])For 10 points, what Norwegian playwright of Peer Gynt wrote (10[1])Hedda Gabler (10[1])and A Doll’s House? ■END■

ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen [or Henrik Johan Ibsen]
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