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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 5, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerd see when see examines Brand's hands?
(a) Nothing, they are not injured at all.
(b) Words carved into them.
(c) Scrapes.
(d) Nail holes.

2. What does Brand claim made his life more bearable?
(a) Agnes and Alf.
(b) His position as Mayor of the settlement.
(c) His mother's love.
(d) Gerd and the Ice Church.

3. Where does Brand ask Agnes to go after his mother leaves?
(a) To cleanse their souls.
(b) To the settlement to prepare for his return.
(c) To the mountains to elope.
(d) To the funeral he is to preside over.

4. Why can't Brand and the Woman go back the way she has come?
(a) A pack of wild animals guards the pass.
(b) The river has flooded and cannot be crossed on foot.
(c) The bridge was destroyed by the storm.
(d) Her husband is looking for her and has a gun.

5. While contemplating staying at the settlement, who finds Brand on the shore?
(a) The Mayor.
(b) His mother.
(c) Gerd.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Act 5, Scene 1, what does the Dean decide to do?

2. What does Brand call his childhood home?

3. The mayor comes to visit Brand claiming that he has been beaten. Why has Brand won the war?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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