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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 day they will be friends.
(b) The second coming.
(c) The sacrificial day.
(d) The Sabbath.

2. When Brand is reunited with Einar, where does Einar say he has been?
(a) Alone in the caves by the fjord.
(b) Wandering the countryside.
(c) Finding his salvation.
(d) Becoming a teacher.

3. 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 funeral attire meant for Brand's mother.
(c) The dress she wore when she married Brand.
(d) The cloak that Alf was christened in.

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

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

6. 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 never speak to Gerd again.
(d) To return to Einar.

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

8. What happens after Brand closes the church?
(a) The Dean begs Brand to reconsider.
(b) The congregation leaves and returns to town.
(c) The Mayor begs Brand to reconsider.
(d) The congregation still promises to follow him regardless of where.

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

10. While discussing the number of people come to the new church, where do the schoolmaster and sexton wish they could go?
(a) To the mountains.
(b) Inside.
(c) To the fjord.
(d) Hide.

11. In regard to the fire at the mayor's home, what is the mayor concerned with saving?
(a) His soul.
(b) His children.
(c) His wife.
(d) Archives.

12. Agnes claims that she has given all in regard to Brand's request. What has she kept, and therefore, lied about?
(a) A mite to buy more candles.
(b) A bonnet.
(c) The bible to preside over the funeral.
(d) She did not use her shawl to wrap the baby in.

13. 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) Close the shades.
(b) Stop with the festivities.
(c) Leave him to think.
(d) Put out more candles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Brand is giving an impromptu sermon to the congregation, who does he claim is the "spirit of compromise?"

2. What do Brand's followers do once they believe that he has misled them?

3. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 2, what are Brand's followers doing as they follow him up the hillside?

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

5. Why does the Mayor claim Brand has not won "this" battle?

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