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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Brand tell Agnes that her offering to him and God counts for nothing?
(a) She has vowed to keep her poverty; she cannot offer it up.
(b) Because she is still distraught.
(c) To him, he sees no meaning behind the offering.
(d) Because she has no money left given the building of the church.

2. 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 the settlement.
(b) His obligation to the Dean.
(c) His obligation to his family.
(d) His obligation to State.

3. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 3, what is Brand's appearance?
(a) Perfect, nothing is wrong with him.
(b) Bloodied and bruised.
(c) He has lost a limb.
(d) He is soaked to the bone from the storm.

4. According to the Mayor, what do the people coming to the church NOT care about?
(a) Hell.
(b) Light.
(c) Dark.
(d) Heaven.

5. After telling the congregation to leave, what does Brand do with the keys to the church?
(a) Throws them into a fire.
(b) Hands them to the Mayor.
(c) Hands them to the Dean.
(d) Throws them into the river.

6. Brand informs the mayor that he will finance the re-building of the church. How does Brand intend to do this?
(a) With the money he gets from the congregation.
(b) With the money he has earned on his own.
(c) With his mother's money.
(d) With Agnes' money.

7. Who decides to leave with Brand (other than members of the congregation) once he closes the church?
(a) The priests.
(b) The Sexton and the Schoolmaster.
(c) Gerd.
(d) No one else is named.

8. What do Brand's followers do once they believe that he has misled them?
(a) They pass word throughout the land not to trst him.
(b) They arrest him and put him in the prison.
(c) They push him off of the hillside.
(d) They throw stones at him.

9. What are the three things that the committee of the church has decided to give to Brand?
(a) A bronze cup, a poem, and a song.
(b) A speech, an olive branch, and a dove.
(c) A silver cup, a song, and a speech.
(d) A gold cup, a poem, and an olive branch.

10. Brand informs the Mayor of his own plans to build. Initially, what does the Mayor say about Brand's plans?
(a) He refuses to believe that Brand could accomplish the task.
(b) He supports him completely.
(c) He says two building projects will not work.
(d) He tells Brand to go ahead and see who finishes first.

11. What does the Mayor tell Brand that he wants to do to take place of the war that is now over?
(a) Cure the curse of poverty.
(b) Try to find another mayoral position elsewhere.
(c) Build a new home.
(d) Focus on his family.

12. The schoolmaster and the sexton are talking about Brand. According to them, why is Brand different?
(a) He is trying to leave the church and become the mayor.
(b) Alf has just died and Brand must preside over the funeral.
(c) He sees the new church as a path to greater power for him.
(d) Agnes has died and he cannot hide the sorrow.

13. 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?
(a) The entire home.
(b) Her.
(c) His children.
(d) His soul.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Brand is contemplating his conversation with the dean, he states "That churchyard's watered with my bleeding; my light, my life, lie buried there:---- but not my (_____), that they'll not snare!" What will "they" not snare?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What does the Mayor expect Brand to wear during his sermon in the new church?

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