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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The congregation questions Brand about the length of the battle to come. What does Brand say will end their suffering?
(a) The building of a new church.
(b) Their belief in God.
(c) The fullfillment of their sacrifice: Nothing if not All.
(d) Their blood and sweat.

2. According to Brand during his initial talk with the Dean, what must new houses find?
(a) New tenants.
(b) The faithful.
(c) New followers.
(d) Sinners.

3. During Brand's contemplation of the Mayor's visit, what word does he say "slips smoothly enough from off the lips?"
(a) Trust.
(b) Love.
(c) God.
(d) Pray.

4. As Brand leaves the Mayor to prepare for his sermon, the Mayor is very confused by Brand's words. What does the Mayor believe Brand has been doing?
(a) Confessing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Day-dreaming.
(d) Praying.

5. At the end of Act 4, Brand makes a statement regarding "true possession's price." What is the price?
(a) Giving.
(b) Loss.
(c) Hoarding.
(d) Labor.

6. In Act 4, Part 3, Agnes has entered the room Brand is in to decorate the room. What does he order her to do?
(a) Leave him to think.
(b) Put out more candles.
(c) Stop with the festivities.
(d) Close the shades.

7. As Brand is speaking aloud to himself in Act 4, he talks about a gift that Agnes possesses. What is the gift that he tells of?
(a) Her ability to see great things in small things.
(b) Her ability to heal the dying.
(c) Her ability to push forward.
(d) Her ability to see destruction before it happens.

8. Brand informs the mayor that he will finance the re-building of the church. How does Brand intend to do this?
(a) With the money he gets from the congregation.
(b) With his mother's money.
(c) With the money he has earned on his own.
(d) With Agnes' money.

9. What does Brand claim about his followers on their trek up the hillside?
(a) That they are all on the right path now.
(b) "You want the pay before the labour."
(c) "You all will perish before you reach the summit."
(d) "There is more than your fill for all."

10. As Einar leaves, Brand realizes something about him. What does Brand realize?
(a) That it was best that Einar left.
(b) That Einar is the man he needs to help him.
(c) That he has failed all of humanity.
(d) That he was wrong in taking Agnes from Einar.

11. The schoolmaster and the sexton are talking about the fire at the mayor's home. When the mayor says, "O, that can go to hell," what do they say he is talking about?
(a) His son.
(b) Her.
(c) His soul.
(d) His home.

12. Act 5 begins how long after the close of Act 4?
(a) Two years.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) Two and a half years.
(d) A year.

13. What does Brand do to lighten the dark room of the parsonage?
(a) Lights ten candles.
(b) Opens the outer doors.
(c) Lights a single candle.
(d) Pulls the shades back from the windows.

14. As Brand is giving an impromptu sermon to the congregation, who does he claim is the "spirit of compromise?"
(a) Satan.
(b) The mayor.
(c) God.
(d) Himself.

15. According to the Mayor, what do the people coming to the church NOT care about?
(a) Dark.
(b) Light.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are people from all over coming to Brand's church?

2. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 2, what are Brand's followers doing as they follow him up the hillside?

3. What two characters find Brand's followers on the hillside to persuade them to return home?

4. Brand re-enters the room that Agnes is in. Agnes is going through a drawer. What does Agnes pull out of the drawer that has a pin on it?

5. Brand makes a very specific demand of Agnes in regard to the woman. What does Brand tell Agnes to do?

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