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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. What does Gerd say her church is built out of?
(a) Branches and twine.
(b) Trees and flowers.
(c) Rocks and mud.
(d) Ice and snow.

2. When Brand enters the fjord, why does the Mayor ask Brand for money?
(a) Because Brand looks wealthy.
(b) Because a hurricane has destroyed the town.
(c) Because the Mayor wants to build a new lodge.
(d) Because the town is in the middle of a long famine.

3. Where does Brand ask Agnes to go after his mother leaves?
(a) To the mountains to elope.
(b) To cleanse their souls.
(c) To the funeral he is to preside over.
(d) To the settlement to prepare for his return.

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

5. What does the doctor compare Brand to when speaking to Brand about Alf.
(a) A snake.
(b) A sheep.
(c) A prisioner.
(d) A shipwrecked man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gerd arrives just after the Man leaves. What is Gerd saying has happened?

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

3. The play begins in what country?

4. When Brand addresses the men who have come to the Woman's house, where does he say the right eye turns toward?

5. While arguing with Brand about the settlement's faith, what does the Mayor say his congregation CAN shed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the word "churchyard" bother Agnes?

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

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

5. What is the Mayor really saying to Brand when talking to him about Brand's mother's fortune?

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

7. Why does Brand believe that the townsfolk have followed the Mayor's desires to this point?

8. Why does Gerd chase the hawk?

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

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

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