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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Act Three begins how many years after Act Two?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

5. What does Brand tell the Mayor is his cause in life?
(a) To "cleanse the people's rampant sin."
(b) To "fight until it fill my home with light!"
(c) To insure he has "incited the flock."
(d) To "make a holy-day of labour's six."

6. Despite the Mayor's argument, why does Brand deny the Mayor's request?
(a) Brand claims to still need to "bring some order and cleanse the people's rampant sin."
(b) Brand claims: "A man can't choose his calling's sphere."
(c) Brand claims: "it's thanks to me the population has made a two, nigh three-fold rise."
(d) Brand claims he is "at war with Nature's stubbornness."

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

8. What do readers find out Brand's mother did to his father while he lay on his deathbed?
(a) Poisoned him.
(b) Searched for his money.
(c) Nothing-she was never by his side.
(d) Suffocated him with a pillow.

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

10. What does Brand claim helping the townsfolk monetarily would be?
(a) A pleasure.
(b) A sin.
(c) A miracle.
(d) Impossible.

11. Why is Brand's mother angry at and scared for Brand?
(a) Because he crossed the fjord during the storm.
(b) Because he forgot to pay for her food.
(c) Because he is with Agnes.
(d) Because he did not leave.

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

13. At the opening of Act 2, Scene One, what is the mayor handing out to the townsfolk?
(a) Corn.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Bread.
(d) Beans.

14. Brand accuses Agnes of being afraid. What does he believe she is scared of?
(a) Losing her sanity by living in the mountains.
(b) Losing thier son due to ilness.
(c) Losing the wealth promised by Brand's mother.
(d) Losing Brand due to illness.

15. When Brand enters the fjord, why does the Mayor ask Brand for money?
(a) Because the town is in the middle of a long famine.
(b) Because Brand looks wealthy.
(c) Because a hurricane has destroyed the town.
(d) Because the Mayor wants to build a new lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason is Brand's mother fearful?

2. What does Brand say will cause Gerd's church to fall?

3. Agnes has a vision. What does she claim to have seen in this vision?

4. Why does the woman refuse to go with Brand across the fjord?

5. What does Brand claim his mother did in search of fortune?

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