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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the woman refuse to go with Brand across the fjord?
(a) There is no one to go home to.
(b) Because she does not know him.
(c) She is afraid of dying and her children need their mother.
(d) She is afraid that her husband will kill her.

2. As Brand finishes his soliloquy, what falls on the ground next to him?
(a) A scarf.
(b) A bible.
(c) A rock.
(d) A bird.

3. Why does Agnes believe "all earthly souls are doomed to fail?"
(a) Because no man is willing to give "All."
(b) Because everyone is full of sin.
(c) Because God asks too much of them.
(d) Because no man is willing to give "Nothing."

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

5. Why does Brand refuse to go with the Doctor?
(a) Brand has to deliver communion.
(b) Brand does not like the doctor and will not go anywhere with him.
(c) Brand will not go unless he has been personally called for.
(d) Brand must stay with Alf.

6. What is the peasant not willing to give up to ease his daughter's death?
(a) His life.
(b) His land.
(c) His home.
(d) HIs wealth.

7. After the doctor leaves, Brand enters his house. What does he find has happened to Alf?
(a) Alf is very ill.
(b) Alf is dead.
(c) Alf has burned himself on the stove.
(d) Alf has ran away.

8. How does the valley look different from Brand's memories of it?
(a) It looks larger than he remembers.
(b) It looks smaller than he remembers.
(c) It looks abandoned.
(d) He does not recognize the land at all.

9. What does Brand offer the Mayor instead of money?
(a) His words.
(b) His help.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A cow.

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

11. 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) 3/4ths.
(b) All.
(c) 9/10ths.
(d) 7/8ths.

12. After Brand helps the Woman's husband, some men from the settlement arrive. What have they brought with them?
(a) Weapons to kill him.
(b) Money.
(c) Scraps of food.
(d) A new boat.

13. Where does Elinar know Brand from?
(a) Their childhood school.
(b) From the orphanage.
(c) They are long-lost brothers reunited.
(d) From church.

14. 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) Einar.
(d) The doctor.

15. What does the Mayor warn Man Two not to do after discovering that his wife has died?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Start any trouble.
(c) Abandon his children.
(d) Marry again.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Brand is waiting to hear about his mother's offering to God, what is Brand afraid God will ask of him?

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

3. What does Einar compare Agnes to?

4. What is the one condition Brand's mother tells him regarding her fortune that is left to him?

5. When Brand addresses the men who have come to the Woman's house, where does he say the left eye turns toward?

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