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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 5, Scene 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerd say her church is built out of?
(a) Branches and twine.
(b) Trees and flowers.
(c) Ice and snow.
(d) Rocks and mud.

2. Why does Brand refuse to help the peasant and his daughter?
(a) Because Brand's son refuses to let him help.
(b) Because he refuses to pay for Brand's services.
(c) Because Brand claims the peasant has no soul.
(d) Because he does not know God.

3. What does Brand do to lighten the dark room of the parsonage?
(a) Lights ten candles.
(b) Lights a single candle.
(c) Opens the outer doors.
(d) Pulls the shades back from the windows.

4. Why does Brand tell Agnes that her offering to him and God counts for nothing?
(a) Because she has no money left given the building of the church.
(b) She has vowed to keep her poverty; she cannot offer it up.
(c) To him, he sees no meaning behind the offering.
(d) Because she is still distraught.

5. In the opening act, who is with Brand?
(a) No one- he is alone.
(b) The schoolmaster and a clerk.
(c) A peasant and his son.
(d) His wife and a maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. When speaking about Alf, Agnes claims Brand is speaking coldly. What does Agnes ask Brand to do?

2. At the end of Act 3, what does Agnes offer up to God as an offering?

3. After informing Brand of his mother's death, what does the doctor tell Brand that their generation is concerned with?

4. What debt does Brand claim his mother owes?

5. While discussing the number of people come to the new church, where do the schoolmaster and sexton wish they could go?

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