Read the excerpt below and answer the question.


“HEDDA: It gives me a sense of freedom to know that a deed of deliberate courage is still possible in this world,—a deed of spontaneous beauty. Hedda Gabler; act IV; p. 139”


The deed that Hedda refers to here is _____.


her decision to kill herself

what she thinks is Lovborg’s suicide

Tesman’s decision to rewrite Lovborg’s book

Aunt Juliana’s decision to seek someone new to care for