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

2. After the doctor leaves, Brand has another visitor. The Man tells Brand that he has an enemy. Who does the Man tell Brand the enemy is?
(a) The mayor.
(b) Gerd.
(c) Agnes.
(d) The man.

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

4. 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!"

5. When Brand enters the fjord, why does the Mayor ask Brand for money?
(a) Because Brand looks wealthy.
(b) Because a hurricane has destroyed the town.
(c) Because the Mayor wants to build a new lodge.
(d) Because the town is in the middle of a long famine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einar compare Agnes to?

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

3. Where does Brand ask Agnes to go after his mother leaves?

4. What does the doctor say Brand and Agnes must do to save Alf?

5. Where does Elinar know Brand from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the townsfolk react to the old church being torn down?

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

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

4. When Einar finds Agnes with Brand and asks her to leave with him, why doesn't Agnes leave with Einar?

5. Why does the Mayor try to shake Brand's hand and why does Brand refuse?

6. During the conversation between the Dean and Brand before the opening of the church, what does the Dean tell Brand are his obligations?

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

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

9. Why does the Mayor contest Brand's viewpoint of the church being too small?

10. Why does Brand have a problem with his mother's "feeding" of the poor box and her fortune?

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