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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. While contemplating staying at the settlement, who finds Brand on the shore?
(a) The Mayor.
(b) Gerd.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

2. When Brand addresses the men who have come to the Woman's house, where does he say the right eye turns toward?
(a) Away from danger.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

3. While contemplating staying, who does Brand say will be "born again" in the settlement?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Himself.
(c) Eve.
(d) Adam.

4. What does Brand claim his mother did in search of fortune?
(a) Abandoned him at an orphanage.
(b) Put her soul up for sale.
(c) Brought prasie to God.
(d) Cheated on his father.

5. What does Brand threaten to do with his inheritance?
(a) Give it to his brother.
(b) Squander it on meaningless possessions.
(c) Throw it to the winds.
(d) Buy the settlement and become the Mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Brand refuse to help the peasant and his daughter?

2. Agnes, holding Alf, is watching the conversation between Gerd and Brand. What does Gerd call Alf?

3. What is frozen in the ice near Gerd's church?

4. The play begins in what country?

5. Although the Man tells Brand that he has helped the people of the settlement, what does Brand claim is the problem with the people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events leading up to, and including, Brand's death.

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

3. What does Brand believe he has given up to be at this moment in life (the new church)?

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

5. Brand sees Agnes sitting on the shore after the men who asked him to be their priest leave. What does Brand start to realize about Agnes?

6. What different attempts does Brand's mother make to get him to come to her on her deathbed?

7. What is the Doctor's diagnosis for Alf?

8. What act of nature happens as Brand if giving the townsfolk and Mayor trouble about their predicament?

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

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

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