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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 the Man claim Brand has shown the townsfolk?
(a) The Devil.
(b) God.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Their sin.

2. What does the peasant's son fear they will encounter if they continue on their journey?
(a) Gypsys.
(b) The nobles of the area.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) Wild animals.

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

4. Why does Agnes believe "all earthly souls are doomed to fail?"
(a) Because no man is willing to give "Nothing."
(b) Because no man is willing to give "All."
(c) Because God asks too much of them.
(d) Because everyone is full of sin.

5. What do readers find out Brand's mother did to his father while he lay on his deathbed?
(a) Nothing-she was never by his side.
(b) Poisoned him.
(c) Suffocated him with a pillow.
(d) Searched for his money.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brand, who must one love first before they can love all mankind?

2. Brand's mother sends news that she has offered half of her fortune to God. Brand still refuses to go see her. What is Brand's mother's second offering?

3. Who does Brand's mother wish to take the glare of blinding light away?

4. What does Brand threaten to do with his inheritance?

5. Who does Brand claim sent Gerd to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brand get angry at the people who have chosen to follow him up the hillside?

2. Why is Brand not excited about the new church?

3. When asking Brand to stay as the settlement priest, how does one man turn Brand's words against him?

4. In the Mayor's mind, how does Brand throw a wrench in the Mayor's plan to build?

5. Gerd does not want Brand to go to the church in the valley. Why not? What church does Gerd want Brand to go to?

6. Why does Brand believe that the townsfolk have followed the Mayor's desires to this point?

7. What act of nature happens as Brand if giving the townsfolk and Mayor trouble about their predicament?

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

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

10. What does Agnes mean by saying "Whoso shall see Jehovah dies!"?

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