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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Brand and Agnes find out about the woman who has rushed into their home?
(a) She is lost and cannot find her way home.
(b) She is a gypsy on the run.
(c) She is a long-lost relative come to take her share in the willed money.
(d) She needs shelter from the weather outside.

2. What does Brand say about Mercy?
(a) It is paved with heartache.
(b) It is paved with an alter-stone.
(c) It is paved with gold.
(d) It is paved by those who can afford to.

3. During Brand's impromptu sermon, what force of nature sends the congregation to gather around Brand?
(a) A bolt of lightening.
(b) A crash of thunder.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A storm.

4. What holiday does Act 4 begin with?
(a) Halloween.
(b) New Year's Day.
(c) Christmas Eve.
(d) Easter.

5. 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.

6. What causes the avalanche at the end of the play?
(a) A rifle shot by Gerd.
(b) Brand throwing himself off the hilside.
(c) The ice-church sliding down the hillside.
(d) The congregation coming down the hillside after Brand.

7. As the Sexton and Schoolmaster are talking about church and state, someone begins playing the organ. Who is it playing the organ?
(a) The mayor.
(b) Gerd.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Brand.

8. While Agnes is arguing with Brand about the decorating, who does he claim she is "not at odds with?"
(a) The devil.
(b) God.
(c) Him.
(d) Alf.

9. Brand makes a very specific demand of Agnes in regard to the woman. What does Brand tell Agnes to do?
(a) Wrap the baby in her shawl so that he may bless it.
(b) Prepare the confessional for the woman.
(c) Give Alf's baby clothes to the woman.
(d) Prepare his clothes so that he may preside over the funeral.

10. After Brand tells Einar of his life since their last meeting, where does Einar say that Agnes is?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) Hell.

11. According to the Mayor, what day will never come?
(a) The day they will be friends.
(b) The Sabbath.
(c) The sacrificial day.
(d) The second coming.

12. During Brand's impromptu sermon, why does the Dean claim Brand is not worth following?
(a) He only answers to God and not the congregation.
(b) His beleifs are too stern.
(c) He is mad.
(d) His faith is not true.

13. The Mayor asks Brand of his intentions in Act 4, Part 2. What does Brand say his intentions are?
(a) To take Agnes away to start anew.
(b) To build.
(c) To leave the settlement forever.
(d) To become friends.

14. What does Brand find out from the mayor about Gerd?
(a) That she is his sister.
(b) That she will destroy their plans to re-build the church.
(c) That she escaped from another town asylum.
(d) That she is his aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes say Brand should call God?

2. During Brand's contemplation of the Mayor's visit, what word does he say "slips smoothly enough from off the lips?"

3. 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?

4. While Brand and the Mayor are discussing different building hopes, what does Brand think is needed most?

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

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