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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through By A Shrine Inside The Town Wall, Night. The Street Outside Gretchen's Door, and A Cathedral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gretchen's secret?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is glad that Valentine is dead.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She killed her mother on purpose.

2. What news does Mephistopheles give Martha in her first scene?
(a) Her husband has joined the militia.
(b) Her husband is in jail.
(c) Her husband is on his way home.
(d) Her husband is dead.

3. What does Faust begin to read in the first scene called "Faust's Study"?
(a) Scripture.
(b) The Qur'an.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) Myths about Mesopotamia.

4. What suggestion does Mephistopheles give Gretchen in "The Neighbor's House" in regards to marriage?
(a) She should take a lover.
(b) She should become an actress.
(c) She should enter a nunnery.
(d) She should run away to another town.

5. How does Valentine currently feel about Gretchen?
(a) He is furious with her.
(b) He feels a murderous hatred towards her.
(c) He feels nothing but love and understanding for her.
(d) He is sympathetic towards her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martha admit about the second box of jewelry?

2. When Gretchen re-enters her room in "Evening," how does she begin to feel?

3. What does the poodle refuse to do when in Faust's study?

4. What happens to Faust and Mephistopheles at the end of "Auerbach's Tavern"?

5. What are the men in the tavern about ready to do when Mephistopheles finally stops them?

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