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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. Why does the woman refuse to go with Brand across the fjord?
(a) She is afraid that her husband will kill her.
(b) Because she does not know him.
(c) She is afraid of dying and her children need their mother.
(d) There is no one to go home to.

2. In the opening act, who is with Brand?
(a) A peasant and his son.
(b) His wife and a maid.
(c) The schoolmaster and a clerk.
(d) No one- he is alone.

3. Brand's mother sends news that she has offered half of her fortune to God. Brand still refuses to go see her. What is Brand's mother's second offering?
(a) 7/8ths.
(b) 9/10ths.
(c) 3/4ths.
(d) All.

4. What does Brand tell his mother she must do to repay her debt?
(a) Nothing- she is too far gone.
(b) Give up everything she has.
(c) Go to the bank and take out a loan.
(d) Give her tithes to the church.

5. At the end of Act 3, what does Agnes offer up to God as an offering?
(a) Herself.
(b) Brand.
(c) Alf.
(d) Gerd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Brand ask Agnes to go after his mother leaves?

2. Who does Brand describe as "well-meaning, plump and debonair, both hands in pocket, quite sublimely like brackets in parenthesis?"

3. What does Agnes choose to do at the end of Act 2?

4. Where are Einar and Agnes going on their journey?

5. How does one of the men convince Brand to stay in the settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brand believe that Agnes is not honoring the Feast Day?

2. What does Agnes mean by saying "Whoso shall see Jehovah dies!"?

3. What lie does the Mayor tell the defectors that gets them to return to town?

4. When Einar finds Agnes with Brand and asks her to leave with him, why doesn't Agnes leave with Einar?

5. Why does Brand think that the ice-church is unsafe?

6. After leaving Einar and Agnes, what does Brand recognize about the valley he has come to?

7. Why does Brand get angry at the people who have chosen to follow him up the hillside?

8. Why does the Mayor need Brand's help in his building?

9. Why does Brand have a problem with his mother's "feeding" of the poor box and her fortune?

10. Why is the Mayor of the settlement handing out food and supplies?

(see the answer keys)

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