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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 Wagner first offer the Clown as payment for his service?
(a) French crowns.
(b) Livestock.
(c) American dollars.
(d) British pounds.

2. What does the Clown agree to do after the devils leave in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Practice magic.
(b) Be Wagner's servant.
(c) Go to hell.
(d) Work for Faustus.

3. What is Faustus very tempted to study in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Law.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Magic.
(d) Medicine.

4. What do the first set of books that Mephastophilis gives Faustus allow Faustus to do?
(a) Control the weather and summon troops of knights.
(b) Give him power over all the other demons and knowledge of the universe.
(c) Go anywhere he wants by thinking about the place.
(d) Control women.

5. Why does Mephastophilis leave Faustus?
(a) Because Wagner summons him.
(b) Because he is tired.
(c) Because it is daylight.
(d) Because he is disgusted with the persistent questions about God and heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Lucifer offer to introduce Faustus?

2. Why does Faustus react the way that he does to the pending storm?

3. What are the names of the devils that appear in Act 1, Scene 4?

4. Why does Mephastophilis not want to answer Faustus's questions in Act 1, Scene 3?

5. How do the scholars feel about Faustus spending time with Valdes and Cornelius?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Faustus do as a storm draws near?

2. What do the scholars decide to do at the end of Act 1, Scene 2? Why?

3. What happens after the Angels leave in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. How does Rafe feel about Robin's book? Why?

5. What do the devils show Faustus in Act 2, Scene 1?

6. In Act 1, Scene 1, what does Faustus send Wagner to do, and why?

7. What does Robin tell Rafe when Rafe arrives in Act 1, Scene 2?

8. How does Mephastophilis respond when Faustus questions him about hell, heaven, and God?

9. What does Wagner tell the scholars about Faustus?

10. What is the meaning behind the allusion of "waxen wings" in line 21 of the Prologue?

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