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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 "fight until it fill my home with light!"
(b) To "make a holy-day of labour's six."
(c) To insure he has "incited the flock."
(d) To "cleanse the people's rampant sin."

2. How does one of the men convince Brand to stay in the settlement?
(a) By blackmailing him.
(b) By using Brand's own belief: it is God's plan.
(c) By promising Brand anything he wishes.
(d) By using Brand's own belief: give all or nothing.

3. Act Three begins how many years after Act Two?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. What does the Woman tell Brand her husband has done?
(a) Ran off with a neighbor girl.
(b) Gambled away their savings.
(c) Killed their child.
(d) Killed a neighbor.

5. As the squall hits the fjord, what do the townsfolk threaten Brand with?
(a) Guns and torches.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Stones and knives.
(d) Throwing him into the storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brand, what does he tell the Mayor is "the greatest triumph?"

2. When Brand sees the valley for the first time, what does Brand realize about the land he has just entered?

3. After Brand helps the Woman's husband, some men from the settlement arrive. What have they brought with them?

4. When Brand enters the fjord, why does the Mayor ask Brand for money?

5. What does Gerd wish Brand to do in her church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Agnes get upset with Brand's choice to stay at the settlement?

2. Three years after last seeing his mother, why is Brand scanning the fjord in front of his home?

3. Why does the Man believe that Brand will not leave?

4. Why does Agnes get angry at Brand about having to close the blinds?

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

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

7. Describe the events leading up to, and including, Brand's death.

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

9. Why are Agnes and Brand not worried about the life of their son Alf?

10. What is the Mayor really saying to Brand when talking to him about Brand's mother's fortune?

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