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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brand tell the Mayor is his cause in life?
(a) To "make a holy-day of labour's six."
(b) To insure he has "incited the flock."
(c) To "cleanse the people's rampant sin."
(d) To "fight until it fill my home with light!"

2. Upon Brand's mother's deathbed, what does she proclaim?
(a) "I have given all that I am willing to give!"
(b) "Not only will God forgive me, my son will as well!"
(c) "God's not hardhearted, like my son!"
(d) "My son will gain nothing from my death!"

3. After informing Brand of his mother's death, what does the doctor tell Brand that their generation is concerned with?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Rods of flame.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Suffering.

4. Agnes has a vision. What does she claim to have seen in this vision?
(a) Brand becoming the town's priest.
(b) Brand becoming the town's Mayor.
(c) Brand walking into the fjord and never returning.
(d) Brand leaving forever.

5. As the men return to the settlement, Brand comments on their appearance. What does he say they have been driven out of?
(a) Paradise.
(b) The fjord.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brand say will cause Gerd's church to fall?

2. What is the peasant afraid will happen to Brand if he continues on the path he is following?

3. Who is seen at the top off the cliffs as Brand leaves to cross the fjord?

4. At the opening of Act 2, Scene One, what is the mayor handing out to the townsfolk?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brand refuse to take the blame from the townsfolk?

2. Why does Brand think that the ice-church is unsafe?

3. Brand decides to help the woman whose husband needs a priest. What dangerous act must Brand perform to get to her home?

4. What does Brand believe he has given up to be at this moment in life (the new church)?

5. Why does the Mayor believe the new church to be great?

6. Why does the Mayor need Brand's help in his building?

7. What does the Mayor say his intentions are now that the he has claimed the war is over?

8. Before the "opening" of the church, what happens after Brand shows his anger at the situation?

9. What is the Doctor's diagnosis for Alf?

10. After Brand agrees that he and Agnes must leave their home, Brand changes his mind. Why?

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