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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 see great things in small things.
(c) Her ability to see destruction before it happens.
(d) Her ability to push forward.

4. What does Brand find out from the mayor about Gerd?
(a) That she is his sister.
(b) That she escaped from another town asylum.
(c) That she will destroy their plans to re-build the church.
(d) That she is his aunt.

5. After Brand tells Einar of his life since their last meeting, where does Einar say that Agnes is?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Hell.

6. What proverb does Agnes speak of as she is talking to Brand about his convictions?
(a) "Light the lifting, hard the bearing."
(b) "A drowning man is not troubled by rain."
(c) "He makes his home where the living is best."
(d) "A broken hand works, but not a broken heart."

7. During Brand's impromptu sermon, what force of nature sends the congregation to gather around Brand?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A bolt of lightening.
(c) A crash of thunder.
(d) A storm.

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

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

10. What does Brand claim about his followers on their trek up the hillside?
(a) "There is more than your fill for all."
(b) "You all will perish before you reach the summit."
(c) That they are all on the right path now.
(d) "You want the pay before the labour."

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

12. What does Gerd see when see examines Brand's hands?
(a) Scrapes.
(b) Nothing, they are not injured at all.
(c) Words carved into them.
(d) Nail holes.

13. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 2, what are Brand's followers doing as they follow him up the hillside?
(a) Singing.
(b) Chanting.
(c) Praying.
(d) Complaining.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brand during his initial talk with the Dean, what must new houses find?

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

3. As the congregation pours into the church to find Brand, what do the priests claim is wrong with him?

4. Who does the Mayor believe he can get to help with the re-construction of the church?

5. Act 5 begins how long after the close of Act 4?

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