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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mayor decide to do to help Brand in the building of the church?
(a) Raising of the walls.
(b) Financing.
(c) The blessing of the church.
(d) Demolition.

2. Who decides to leave with Brand (other than members of the congregation) once he closes the church?
(a) The Sexton and the Schoolmaster.
(b) The priests.
(c) No one else is named.
(d) Gerd.

3. In the opening of Act 5, Scene 3, what are the weather conditions like?
(a) A storm is coming.
(b) It is hailing.
(c) A storm has just ended and a rainbow can be seen.
(d) It is sunny and mild.

4. What does Brand do to lighten the dark room of the parsonage?
(a) Lights a single candle.
(b) Opens the outer doors.
(c) Pulls the shades back from the windows.
(d) Lights ten candles.

5. Act 5 begins how long after the close of Act 4?
(a) A year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Two and a half years.
(d) A year and a half.

6. The mayor comes to visit Brand claiming that he has been beaten. Why has Brand won the war?
(a) Brand now holds the majority.
(b) The mayor is sick and cannot continue the battle.
(c) Brand has killed all of the mayor's followers.
(d) Brand has a bigger church.

7. What does Agnes claim is all she has left to offer to Brand and God?
(a) Her heart's root.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her vast wealth.
(d) Her poverty.

8. What are the three things that the committee of the church has decided to give to Brand?
(a) A silver cup, a song, and a speech.
(b) A bronze cup, a poem, and a song.
(c) A speech, an olive branch, and a dove.
(d) A gold cup, a poem, and an olive branch.

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

10. What does the Mayor tell Brand that he wants to do to take place of the war that is now over?
(a) Try to find another mayoral position elsewhere.
(b) Focus on his family.
(c) Build a new home.
(d) Cure the curse of poverty.

11. As the congregation pours into the church to find Brand, what do the priests claim is wrong with him?
(a) That he has paired with the Devil.
(b) That he has gone mad.
(c) That he is ill.
(d) That he is under a spell.

12. At the end of Act 5, Scene 1, what does the Dean decide to do?
(a) Return to town to talk to the Mayor about what they are going to do with Brand.
(b) Follow Brand up the mountain to keep the "flock from straying farther".
(c) Become a member of Brand's "new" congregation.
(d) Nothing...he believes it has all gone too far.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 4, what has Agnes been doing while Brand has been away with parish work?

2. The Mayor asks Brand of his intentions in Act 4, Part 2. What does Brand say his intentions are?

3. During Brand's impromptu sermon, why does the Dean claim Brand is not worth following?

4. While Brand and the Mayor are discussing different building hopes, what does Brand think is needed most?

5. When Brand is reunited with Einar, where does Einar say he has been?

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