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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Gloomy Day. Open Country, Night. In Open Country and A Prison.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the clown profess to wanting for this play during "Prelude on the Stage"?
(a) He wants to entertain the audience.
(b) He wants to create a grand piece of art.
(c) He wants to be seen by the director of a better theater.
(d) He wants to play the lead.

2. What scene is being presented in "A Walpurgis Night's Dream"?
(a) Iphigenia's escape from Tauris.
(b) Bel-Imperia's imprisonment.
(c) The rape of Wendla.
(d) Titania and Oberon's wedding.

3. What is the Huckster-Witch attempting to do during "Walpurgis Night"?
(a) Sell her wares.
(b) Cast spells of old age on the rest of the witches.
(c) Sell her body.
(d) Pickpocket Faust.

4. Ultimately, in "Prelude on the Stage," what does the director decide to do with their play?
(a) They will perform a classic tragedy instead of their play.
(b) Take suggestions from the audience and create a play.
(c) Perform a comedy.
(d) Take the audience on a journey from heaven to hell.

5. How does Mephistopheles give Martha contradicting statements about her husband in "The Neighbor's House"?
(a) He tells her that her husband was a great man and a despicable man.
(b) He hints at different times that her husband loved her or did not love her.
(c) He tells her that her husband is dead and then alive.
(d) He tells her that her husband was a homosexual, but probably not.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Faust's method of suicide when he contemplates ending his life?

2. What does Mephistopheles promise to attempt to secure for Faust in regards to the girl at the end of "A Street?"

3. Where does Faust first see the image of the girl with whom he grows obsessed?

4. Which mountains do Faust and Mephistopheles travel to in "Walpurgis Night"?

5. Who wrote the section "Dedication"?

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