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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While arguing with Brand about the settlement's faith, what does the Mayor say his congregation CAN shed?
(a) Blood.
(b) Sweat.
(c) Tears.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does the doctor say Brand and Agnes must do to save Alf?
(a) Go to see the voodoo healer in the next village.
(b) Leave his home and find somewhere sunnier and warmer.
(c) Perform a blood transfusion, something Brand refuses because of his religion.
(d) Nothing, There is nothing that can save Alf.

4. Brand refuses to change his beliefs. What does Brand say to Agnes in reply to her questioning him?
(a) "Don't think that I am blaming you."
(b) "You've got the call, see!"
(c) "Was I priest or father first?"
(d) "I know you won't deceive us."

5. Who does Brand claim sent Gerd to him?
(a) The doctor.
(b) God.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The Man.

6. As Brand is contemplating the doctor's prognosis, what does the doctor claim about Brand?
(a) That when personally troubled, All or Nothing still matters.
(b) That he is the weakest man he has ever met.
(c) That when personally troubled, All or Nothing does not matter.
(d) That even in the face of death, Brand complies to all others' needs.

7. What is frozen in the ice near Gerd's church?
(a) A bear.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A reindeer.
(d) A lion.

8. Who is seen at the top off the cliffs as Brand leaves to cross the fjord?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Einar.
(c) Gerd.
(d) The Woman's husband.

9. What do the men say happened to the person who previously held the position for which they seek Brand?
(a) He drowned in a squall crossing the fjord.
(b) He died because of the famine.
(c) He was captured by the nobels of the land.
(d) He left because they could not pay him enough.

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

11. Who does Brand describe as "well-meaning, plump and debonair, both hands in pocket, quite sublimely like brackets in parenthesis?"
(a) The Mayor.
(b) Gerd.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Einar.

12. What does the doctor compare Brand to when speaking to Brand about Alf.
(a) A snake.
(b) A shipwrecked man.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A prisioner.

13. What does the Man call Brand when Brand says the mayor has been telling the truth?
(a) A savior.
(b) A demon.
(c) A shameless scold.
(d) A dirty liar.

14. Gerd arrives just after the Man leaves. What is Gerd saying has happened?
(a) That the mayor has died.
(b) That she has seen Alf running away through the mountains.
(c) That Brand's mother has died.
(d) The preacher has left.

15. What is the peasant willing to pay to ease his daughter's death?
(a) Nothing.
(b) $10.
(c) $100.
(d) $1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does one of the men convince Brand to stay in the settlement?

2. Despite the Mayor's argument, why does Brand deny the Mayor's request?

3. At the Woman's house, what have the men come to ask of Brand?

4. What does Brand claim helping the townsfolk monetarily would be?

5. While talking about Alf the Brand, what does the doctor claim that Brand is running from?

(see the answer keys)

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