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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Brand's followers do once they believe that he has misled them?
(a) They arrest him and put him in the prison.
(b) They pass word throughout the land not to trst him.
(c) They throw stones at him.
(d) They push him off of the hillside.

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 son.
(c) His soul.
(d) Her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Put out more candles.
(c) Close the shades.
(d) Stop with the festivities.

13. Brand informs the mayor that he will finance the re-building of the church. How does Brand intend to do this?
(a) With Agnes' money.
(b) With the money he gets from the congregation.
(c) With his mother's money.
(d) With the money he has earned on his own.

14. 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.

15. Brand informs the Mayor of his own plans to build. Initially, what does the Mayor say about Brand's plans?
(a) He tells Brand to go ahead and see who finishes first.
(b) He refuses to believe that Brand could accomplish the task.
(c) He says two building projects will not work.
(d) He supports him completely.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Agnes is arguing with Brand about the decorating, who does he claim she is "not at odds with?"

2. After Brand tells Einar of his life since their last meeting, where does Einar say that Agnes is?

3. Before Brand goes to give his sermon, the Dean has come to speak to him about his obligations. What obligation does the Dean say Brand must fulfill?

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

5. As the Sexton and Schoolmaster are talking about church and state, someone begins playing the organ. Who is it playing the organ?

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