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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form appears to Brand after he has been chased from the hilltop by the congregation?
(a) His mother.
(b) Alf.
(c) His father.
(d) Agnes.

2. While talking about the size of the church, what does Brand beg of Agnes?
(a) To never speak to Gerd again.
(b) To return to Einar.
(c) To leave him and never come back.
(d) To never leave him.

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

4. The congregation questions Brand about the length of the battle to come. What does Brand say will end their suffering?
(a) Their blood and sweat.
(b) The building of a new church.
(c) The fullfillment of their sacrifice: Nothing if not All.
(d) Their belief in God.

5. 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?
(a) The dress she wore when she married Brand.
(b) The funeral attire meant for Brand's mother.
(c) The cloak that Alf was christened in.
(d) The suit coat that Brand wore when they married.

6. In Act 4, Part 3, Agnes has entered the room Brand is in to decorate the room. What does he order her to do?
(a) Stop with the festivities.
(b) Close the shades.
(c) Put out more candles.
(d) Leave him to think.

7. According to Brand during his initial talk with the Dean, what must new houses find?
(a) New tenants.
(b) The faithful.
(c) Sinners.
(d) New followers.

8. The mayor comes to visit Brand claiming that he has been beaten. Why has Brand won the war?
(a) Brand has a bigger church.
(b) Brand has killed all of the mayor's followers.
(c) The mayor is sick and cannot continue the battle.
(d) Brand now holds the majority.

9. What two characters find Brand's followers on the hillside to persuade them to return home?
(a) The Dean and the Mayor's clerk.
(b) The Mayor and the Dean.
(c) Gerd and Einar.
(d) The Mayor and his clerk.

10. As Einar leaves, Brand realizes something about him. What does Brand realize?
(a) That it was best that Einar left.
(b) That he has failed all of humanity.
(c) That Einar is the man he needs to help him.
(d) That he was wrong in taking Agnes from Einar.

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

12. At the beginning of Act 4, what do readers find out has happened to Alf?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has gotten better.
(c) He is still the same: very ill.
(d) He ran away.

13. What does Brand do to lighten the dark room of the parsonage?
(a) Lights ten candles.
(b) Pulls the shades back from the windows.
(c) Opens the outer doors.
(d) Lights a single candle.

14. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 2, what are Brand's followers doing as they follow him up the hillside?
(a) Singing.
(b) Praying.
(c) Chanting.
(d) Complaining.

15. Before Brand goes to give his sermon, the Dean has come to speak to him about his obligations. What obligation does the Dean say Brand must fulfill?
(a) His obligation to State.
(b) His obligation to the Dean.
(c) His obligation to his family.
(d) His obligation to the settlement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Brand, what is a corpse's only task?

3. Who decides to leave with Brand (other than members of the congregation) once he closes the church?

4. According to the Mayor, what do the people coming to the church care about?

5. The schoolmaster and the sexton are talking about the fire that ravaged the Mayor's home. What did the mayor's wife tell him to save?

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