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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Mayor, what day will never come?
(a) The sacrificial day.
(b) The Sabbath.
(c) The day they will be friends.
(d) The second coming.

2. Act 5 begins how long after the close of Act 4?
(a) A year and a half.
(b) A year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Two and a half years.

3. What word does Agnes hate to hear?
(a) Churchyard.
(b) Alf.
(c) Gerd.
(d) Death.

4. During Agnes' decorating, she states that she is dreaming. What does Brand claim dreams are "beset with?"
(a) The future.
(b) Snares.
(c) Lies.
(d) The truth.

5. A tattered woman with a baby in her arms enters where Brand and Agnes are. What is it that the woman needs?
(a) A burial for her husband.
(b) Clothes for her child.
(c) A priest's blessing for her child.
(d) A confessional.

6. What does Agnes claim is all she has left to offer to Brand and God?
(a) Her vast wealth.
(b) Her heart's root.
(c) Her poverty.
(d) Nothing.

7. What does Agnes claim was wrong with her "visitor" during the night when Brand was gone?
(a) The visitor was on fire.
(b) The visitor was frozen.
(c) The visitor was transparent.
(d) The visitor had no head.

8. What does the Mayor decide to do to help Brand in the building of the church?
(a) The blessing of the church.
(b) Financing.
(c) Demolition.
(d) Raising of the walls.

9. 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 the Mayor has promised not to punish those who left with Brand.
(c) That the church is burning and they need help to put it out.
(d) That a new priest has come to take over the church.

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

11. During Brand's impromptu sermon, why does the Dean claim Brand is not worth following?
(a) He is mad.
(b) His faith is not true.
(c) His beleifs are too stern.
(d) He only answers to God and not the congregation.

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

13. Why does the Mayor claim Brand has not won "this" battle?
(a) The Mayor says that he has sabbotaged the path Brand is on.
(b) The Mayor claims to have the upper hand.
(c) The Mayor knows his flock.
(d) The Mayor claims to have knowledge of a sin Brand carries.

14. In Act 4, what has Agnes been doing while Brand has been away with parish work?
(a) Decorating for New Year's Day.
(b) Decorating for Halloween.
(c) Decorating for Easter.
(d) Decorating for Christmas.

15. As Brand is giving an impromptu sermon to the congregation, who does he claim is the "spirit of compromise?"
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) The mayor.
(d) Satan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Mayor asks Brand of his intentions in Act 4, Part 2. What does Brand say his intentions are?

3. Why does Brand tell Agnes that her offering to him and God counts for nothing?

4. 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?

5. Brand informs the mayor that he will finance the re-building of the church. How does Brand intend to do this?

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