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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the prologue to Scene 3 in Act II?
(a) Faust.
(b) The homonculus.
(c) Erichto.
(d) Caesar.

2. Which group of people does Baccalaureus feel should be shot?
(a) All professors.
(b) Inexperienced youth.
(c) Men over thirty.
(d) Single females.

3. According to the astrologer in Scene 2, what is the fairest star?
(a) Venus.
(b) Saturn.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mars.

4. What are the names of the two philosophers that the homunculus comes upon in Scene 3 of Act II?
(a) Socrates and Plato.
(b) Anaxagoras and Thales.
(c) Anaxagoras and Xenophanes.
(d) Heraclitus and Thales.

5. Why is Faust desirous to leave the group when the first arrive at Walpurgis Night in Act II?
(a) He is obsessed with finding Helen.
(b) He is upset at Mephistopholes.
(c) The homunculus suggests that he goes off on his own.
(d) He wants to seek out Achilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Scene 7 in Act I?

2. How does the homunculus appear in the beginning of Scene 3 of Act II?

3. What is the state of Faust at the end of Act I?

4. Who must Faust go to, in order to conjure Helen and Paris?

5. According to Faust's dream, who is the mother of Helen?

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