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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are people from all over coming to Brand's church?
(a) The new church is on fire and needs to be put out.
(b) Brand is seeing over the funeral of a town official.
(c) Agnes is ill and the town is coming to watch over her.
(d) The new church is being consecrated.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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) The fullfillment of their sacrifice: Nothing if not All.
(c) Their blood and sweat.
(d) Their belief in God.

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

7. 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?
(a) His obligation to the Dean.
(b) His obligation to the settlement.
(c) His obligation to his family.
(d) His obligation to State.

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

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

10. As Einar leaves, Brand realizes something about him. What does Brand realize?
(a) That he was wrong in taking Agnes from Einar.
(b) That he has failed all of humanity.
(c) That it was best that Einar left.
(d) That Einar is the man he needs to help him.

11. 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.

12. Who does the Mayor believe he can get to help with the re-construction of the church?
(a) Gypsies.
(b) Builders from another settlement.
(c) The townsfolk.
(d) The prisoners of the town's jail.

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

14. When speaking about Alf, Agnes claims Brand is speaking coldly. What does Agnes ask Brand to do?
(a) Not speak to her about Alf.
(b) Stop talking to her at all.
(c) Continue with the coldness.
(d) Speak gently.

15. Why does Brand tell Agnes that her offering to him and God counts for nothing?
(a) To him, he sees no meaning behind the offering.
(b) Because she has no money left given the building of the church.
(c) Because she is still distraught.
(d) She has vowed to keep her poverty; she cannot offer it up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What news does the new arrival to the hillside tell Brand's followers is reason to return to the settlement?

3. What does Brand say about Mercy?

4. What two characters find Brand's followers on the hillside to persuade them to return home?

5. Brand makes a very specific demand of Agnes in regard to the woman. What does Brand tell Agnes to do?

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