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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mayor asks Brand of his intentions in Act 4, Part 2. What does Brand say his intentions are?
(a) To take Agnes away to start anew.
(b) To build.
(c) To leave the settlement forever.
(d) To become friends.

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

3. The schoolmaster and the sexton are talking about the fire at the mayor's home. When the mayor says, "O, that can go to hell," what do they say he is talking about?
(a) His home.
(b) His soul.
(c) His son.
(d) Her.

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

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

6. During Brand's contemplation of the Mayor's visit, what word does he say "slips smoothly enough from off the lips?"
(a) Trust.
(b) God.
(c) Pray.
(d) Love.

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

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

9. According to Brand, what is a corpse's only task?
(a) Raising from the dead to seek vengence.
(b) To give those living something tangible to mourn.
(c) Giving nourishment to new seeds.
(d) Harbor a soul until death.

10. What does the Mayor expect Brand to wear during his sermon in the new church?
(a) The pin from Alf's christening gown.
(b) The order's cross.
(c) The colors of the settlement.
(d) The flag of the setlement.

11. As Brand leaves the Mayor to prepare for his sermon, the Mayor is very confused by Brand's words. What does the Mayor believe Brand has been doing?
(a) Praying.
(b) Day-dreaming.
(c) Confessing.
(d) Drinking.

12. After Brand has completed his thoughts, he seems to be worried. What does Brand ask Agnes for?
(a) Silence.
(b) Death.
(c) Light.
(d) Her hand.

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

14. 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) No one else is named.
(d) Gerd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Mayor tell Brand that he wants to do to take place of the war that is now over?

2. In regard to the fire at the mayor's home, what is the mayor concerned with saving?

3. At the beginning of Act 4, what do readers find out has happened to Alf?

4. At the end of Act 5, Scene 1, what does the Dean decide to do?

5. 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?

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