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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brand threaten to do with his inheritance?

2. Upon Brand's mother's deathbed, what does she proclaim?

3. Where is the only place Gerd ever feels safe?

4. What is the peasant not willing to give up to ease his daughter's death?

5. Who does Brand see sitting on the shore as the Men leave to return to the settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has changed in Brand's life over the past year and a half (since the end of Act 4)?

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

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

4. During the conversation between the Dean and Brand before the opening of the church, what does the Dean tell Brand are his obligations?

5. Why does Gerd chase the hawk?

6. What does the Mayor say his intentions are now that the he has claimed the war is over?

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

8. Describe Einar's description of God.

9. Why does Agnes choose to follow Brand instead of going with Einar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relevance of Gerd's hawk? What does her hawk symbolize? What is the importance of the hawk to the meaning behind the play?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the several biblical references seen throughout the play. Discuss the biblical reference's importance to the play and the character.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the religious aspect (what the Mayor could be represented as) of the Mayor handing out food/supplies to the townspeople.

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