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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mephastophilis do to Robin and Rafe as punishment for meddling?
(a) Sends them to hell.
(b) Turns them into an ape and a dog.
(c) Beats them.
(d) Kills them.

2. When does Faustus claim that he is going to die?
(a) Tonight.
(b) In one year.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Next month.

3. What happens at midnight in Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) Faustus dies.
(b) Devils arrive to take Faustus to hell.
(c) The scholars scream.
(d) Faustus begins praying to God for forgiveness.

4. What does Faustus say when the Horse-Courser attacks him toward the end of Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) He tells Mephastophilis to do something about him.
(b) He hits his attacker.
(c) He wants the attacker to die.
(d) He asks the attacker to leave him alone.

5. Where does Faustus say he got the grapes?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) Another place in the world where it is summer.
(d) Constantinople.

6. What does the Duchess of Vanholt have a craving for?
(a) Apples.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Hamburger.
(d) Grapes.

7. What does Faustus speak of after talking to the Old Man?
(a) His friends.
(b) His pending death.
(c) Hell.
(d) God and forgiveness.

8. From where does Mephastophilis retrieve Alexander the Great?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Hell.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Death.

9. Who is waiting in the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) The Good Angel and the Bad Angel.
(b) The pope and his friars.
(c) Faustus and Mephastophilis.
(d) Rafe and Robin.

10. Whom does Carolus want to see in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) Alexander the Great and his paramour.
(b) Lucifer.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Helen of Troy.

11. What does Faustus do when the Horse-Courser leaves?
(a) Leaves quickly.
(b) Goes to sleep.
(c) Argues with Mephastophilis.
(d) Eats dinner.

12. Who is awestruck at the end of Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) Wagner.
(b) Faustus.
(c) The Duke of Vanholt.
(d) The Duchess of Vanholt.

13. What does Faustus tell the Horse-Courser not to do?
(a) Sell the horse to someone else.
(b) Yell at the horse.
(c) Take the horse into water.
(d) Talk directly to Mephastophilis.

14. Who does Faustus play a joke on in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) The cynical knight.
(b) Mephastophilis.
(c) Carolus.
(d) Wagner.

15. Whom does Faustus talk to at the beginning of Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) Mephastophilis.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Wagner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Robin cast a spell?

2. What does Carolus promise Faustus in Act 4, Scene 1 after Faustus adheres to Carolus' request?

3. Who appears when Act 3, Scene 2 opens?

4. Who arrives in the beginning of Act 4, Scene 2?

5. What is Faustus doing at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 3?

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