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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. After informing Brand of his mother's death, what does the doctor tell Brand that their generation is concerned with?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Rods of flame.

2. Where is the only place Gerd ever feels safe?
(a) No where- she never feels safe.
(b) At home.
(c) In church.
(d) Running in the mountains.

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

4. What is the peasant willing to pay to ease his daughter's death?
(a) $10.
(b) Nothing.
(c) $100.
(d) $1,000.

5. What promise does Agnes tell Brand he has failed to keep regarding their life?
(a) They are poor and Brand said that they would be wealthly.
(b) He said their life would be one of woe and she is actually living a happy life.
(c) Brand said he would leave her until his mother dies.
(d) That she would become a noble of the land if she married him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Act Three begins how many years after Act Two?

2. What does Einar compare Agnes to?

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

4. Why does Agnes believe "all earthly souls are doomed to fail?"

5. What does the Mayor warn Man Two not to do after discovering that his wife has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the peasant willing to give up, and not give up, for a priest to visit his ailing daughter?

2. Why does Brand get carried away by Agnes' statements as she sits by the shore?

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

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

5. When asking Brand to stay as the settlement priest, how does one man turn Brand's words against him?

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

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

8. What does Agnes find wrong with Brand's church?

9. How did the townsfolk react to the old church being torn down?

10. Why is Brand not excited about the new church?

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