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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 Brand save Einar and Agnes from doing?
(a) Being attacked by a lion.
(b) Falling over a waterfall.
(c) Falling off a cliff.
(d) Being robbed by gypsys.

2. What do readers find out Brand's mother did to his father while he lay on his deathbed?
(a) Suffocated him with a pillow.
(b) Nothing-she was never by his side.
(c) Searched for his money.
(d) Poisoned him.

3. Gerd arrives just after the Man leaves. What is Gerd saying has happened?
(a) That Brand's mother has died.
(b) That the mayor has died.
(c) The preacher has left.
(d) That she has seen Alf running away through the mountains.

4. While talking about Alf the Brand, what does the doctor claim that Brand is running from?
(a) His mother's corpse and his flock of souls.
(b) God.
(c) The mayor and Gerd.
(d) The devil.

5. During Brand's conversation with the Mayor about his inheritance, what does Brand realize the Mayor is saying?
(a) The Mayor wants him to convince his mother to give all of her money to the town.
(b) The Mayor wants him to leave Agnes and marry his daughter.
(c) The Mayor wants to confiscate Brand's inheritance.
(d) The Mayor wants him to leave the settlement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the woman refuse to go with Brand across the fjord?

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

4. What does Brand tell the Mayor is his cause in life?

5. According to Brand, what does he tell the Mayor is "the greatest triumph?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. After Brand agrees that he and Agnes must leave their home, Brand changes his mind. Why?

5. Why do Einar and Agnes not see the precipice?

6. Why does Agnes get upset with Brand's choice to stay at the settlement?

7. Why does the Mayor try to shake Brand's hand and why does Brand refuse?

8. What does Brand's mother have to tell him about her fortune?

9. 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?

10. What does the Mayor want the people to think about before they leave with Brand? What is their reaction?

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