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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. Who goes with Brand out into the storm?
(a) The Mayor.
(b) Agnes.
(c) The Woman.
(d) Einar.

2. What does Agnes choose to do at the end of Act 2?
(a) Stay with Brand.
(b) Stay with Brand's mother.
(c) Stay with Gerd.
(d) Stay with Einar.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Woman need who runs into the town as the squall hits?

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

4. At the Woman's house, what have the men come to ask of Brand?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Agnes have an issue with how rigid Brand is regarding his God and faith?

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

4. Why have some of the men of the settlement come to see Brand at the woman's house?

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

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

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

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

10. Three years after last seeing his mother, why is Brand scanning the fjord in front of his home?

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