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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Brand decide to go at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) To the river.
(b) To the mountains.
(c) To the settlement.
(d) To the ice church.

2. What is Gerd chasing when she meets Brand?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A dog.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A hawk.

3. What does Brand offer the Mayor instead of money?
(a) His words.
(b) A prayer.
(c) His help.
(d) A cow.

4. What does Brand say will cause Gerd's church to fall?
(a) The earth trembling because of the choir singing.
(b) The sun and the moon.
(c) Nothing- the church will withstand everything.
(d) Squalls, shouting, and rifle shots.

5. What does the doctor say Brand and Agnes must do to save Alf?
(a) Go to see the voodoo healer in the next village.
(b) Nothing, There is nothing that can save Alf.
(c) Perform a blood transfusion, something Brand refuses because of his religion.
(d) Leave his home and find somewhere sunnier and warmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon Brand's arrival to the valley, where are all of the town's folk going to?

2. The play begins in what country?

3. How does Brand think Einar see God?

4. What does Brand claim helping the townsfolk monetarily would be?

5. What is the peasant willing to pay to ease his daughter's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Agnes and Brand not worried about the life of their son Alf?

2. What does Brand believe Agnes must do to complete her dependence on Alf's memory?

3. Why does Gerd chase the hawk?

4. What does Brand's mother have to tell him about her fortune?

5. Why does Agnes volunteer to go with Brand across the fjord when no one else will?

6. Why does the Mayor contest Brand's viewpoint of the church being too small?

7. Gerd does not want Brand to go to the church in the valley. Why not? What church does Gerd want Brand to go to?

8. Why does Agnes get angry at Brand about having to close the blinds?

9. During the conversation between the Dean and Brand before the opening of the church, what does the Dean tell Brand are his obligations?

10. Why does Brand refuse to take the blame from the townsfolk?

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