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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The schoolmaster ans the sexton are discussing the old church. What do they claim fell along with the walls of the church?
(a) Agnes' life.
(b) The spirits that dwelled in the church.
(c) Gerd's life.
(d) The lives of the townsfolk.

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

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

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

8. What word does Agnes hate to hear?
(a) Gerd.
(b) Death.
(c) Churchyard.
(d) Alf.

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

10. In Act 4, what has Agnes been doing while Brand has been away with parish work?
(a) Decorating for Halloween.
(b) Decorating for Easter.
(c) Decorating for Christmas.
(d) Decorating for New Year's Day.

11. 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) The new church is being consecrated.
(c) Brand is seeing over the funeral of a town official.
(d) Agnes is ill and the town is coming to watch over her.

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

13. According to the Mayor, what do the people coming to the church care about?
(a) Light.
(b) Faith.
(c) Sin.
(d) Dark.

14. What does Brand say about Mercy?
(a) It is paved by those who can afford to.
(b) It is paved with an alter-stone.
(c) It is paved with gold.
(d) It is paved with heartache.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes claim is all she has left to offer to Brand and God?

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?

3. What happens after Brand closes the church?

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

5. When speaking about Alf, Agnes claims Brand is speaking coldly. What does Agnes ask Brand to do?

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