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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerd wish Brand to do in her church?
(a) Sabotage the worship service.
(b) Become a member of the congregation.
(c) Try to help her set it fire.
(d) Become the priest.

2. What news does the doctor bring to Brand as he and Agnes are discussing the weaknesses of man?
(a) The drought is over and the townsfolk are meeting in the square.
(b) The mayor needs him for last rites for his son.
(c) Gerd is dying and needs a priest.
(d) Brand's mother is dying.

3. What does the Man claim Brand has shown the townsfolk?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Their sin.
(c) God.
(d) Forgiveness.

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

5. What does Agnes choose to do at the end of Act 2?
(a) Stay with Gerd.
(b) Stay with Brand's mother.
(c) Stay with Einar.
(d) Stay with Brand.

6. Who does Gerd threaten when she leaves to go to church?
(a) The hawk.
(b) Brand's son.
(c) Brand.
(d) The townsfolk.

7. As the squall hits the fjord, what do the townsfolk threaten Brand with?
(a) Throwing him into the storm.
(b) Guns and torches.
(c) Stones and knives.
(d) Imprisonment.

8. When Brand addresses the men who have come to the Woman's house, where does he say the right eye turns toward?
(a) Away from danger.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) Dirt.

9. Where is the only place Gerd ever feels safe?
(a) In church.
(b) Running in the mountains.
(c) At home.
(d) No where- she never feels safe.

10. According to Brand, who must one love first before they can love all mankind?
(a) One other person.
(b) God.
(c) Himself.
(d) A child.

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

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

13. Brand's mother sends news that she has offered half of her fortune to God. Brand still refuses to go see her. What is Brand's mother's second offering?
(a) All.
(b) 3/4ths.
(c) 7/8ths.
(d) 9/10ths.

14. At the Woman's house, what have the men come to ask of Brand?
(a) To be their farmer.
(b) To be their Mayor.
(c) To be the prision guard.
(d) To be their priest.

15. What does Brand threaten to do with his inheritance?
(a) Give it to his brother.
(b) Squander it on meaningless possessions.
(c) Buy the settlement and become the Mayor.
(d) Throw it to the winds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening act, who is with Brand?

2. Brand claims to know the enemy. Who does Brand believe the enemy to be?

3. What does the Woman need who runs into the town as the squall hits?

4. Upon Brand's arrival to the valley, where are all of the town's folk going to?

5. What does the Man call Brand when Brand says the mayor has been telling the truth?

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