View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Mayor tell Brand he should expect given his accomplishments for the church?
(a) The pope offering him a cardinal position.
(b) Knighthood.
(c) A larger congregation than the church can handle.
(d) A new home.

3. 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.

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

5. What does Agnes say Brand should call God?
(a) Lord.
(b) Father.
(c) Saint.
(d) Devil.

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

7. What causes the avalanche at the end of the play?
(a) The ice-church sliding down the hillside.
(b) The congregation coming down the hillside after Brand.
(c) A rifle shot by Gerd.
(d) Brand throwing himself off the hilside.

8. What news does the new arrival to the hillside tell Brand's followers is reason to return to the settlement?
(a) That the fish have returned to the fjord.
(b) That a new priest has come to take over the church.
(c) That the church is burning and they need help to put it out.
(d) That the Mayor has promised not to punish those who left with Brand.

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

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

11. When does Agnes wish Brand to have the new "great church" built by?
(a) Before fall.
(b) Never. She likes the church as it is.
(c) Before spring.
(d) Before summer.

12. How many people have come to the new church?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thousands.
(d) One hundred.

13. 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) He sees the new church as a path to greater power for him.
(c) Agnes has died and he cannot hide the sorrow.
(d) Alf has just died and Brand must preside over the funeral.

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

15. As Brand is speaking aloud to himself in Act 4, he talks about a gift that Agnes possesses. What is the gift that he tells of?
(a) Her ability to heal the dying.
(b) Her ability to push forward.
(c) Her ability to see destruction before it happens.
(d) Her ability to see great things in small things.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 3, what is Brand's appearance?

2. At the end of Act 4, Brand makes a statement regarding "true possession's price." What is the price?

3. During Brand's impromptu sermon, why does the Dean claim Brand is not worth following?

4. What do Brand and Agnes find out about the woman who has rushed into their home?

5. While talking about the size of the church, what does Brand beg of Agnes?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 754 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample