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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Martha warn Mephistopheles about while Gretchen and Faust speak?
2. What is Gretchen attending during "A Cathedral"?
3. What does Gretchen believe will happen when she and Faust are separated in "A Garden?"
4. What purpose does "A Walpurgis's Night Dream" serve in this play?
5. For what reasons does Gretchen want Faust to go to a particular location in "A Prison"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Faust's vision of Gretchen.
2. What leads up to Faust pledging his love to Gretchen?
3. What is Walpurgis Night?
4. What is ironic about Mephistopheles's statement that Gretchen is doomed?
5. Describe Martha and Mephistopheles's interactions in "A Garden."
6. What does Faust fear in regards to his relationship with Gretchen about Mephistopheles?
7. What does Faust admit to being jealous of and why?
8. What does Faust ask of Gretchen during "Martha's Garden" and how does she (and Mephistopheles) react to this?
9. Why does Mephistopheles keep trying to subvert Faust from examining his vision of Gretchen?
10. Why is Gretchen praying to the Virgin Mary?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Faust fit the definition of a tragic hero? What is his hamartia? How do his actions cause the tragedies of this play. Discuss these questions (though not exclusively) in the form of an essay. Compose a clear thesis statement and cite specific examples from the text to support your answers. Be sure to define the terms "tragic hero" and "hamartia," as well as discuss how Faust also subverts the trope of a tragic hero.
Essay Topic 2
What roles do women play in the society of this play? Why is it significant that the town and Valentine held Gretchen's worth so high but immediately tore her down because of her pregnancy? How is the unseen-character of Barbara related to this fact? How does Faust, despite his professed love of Gretchen, also reduce her character down to what he wants her to be? How does Martha and her role as an abused wife suggest the esteem in which women are held? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write a brief essay about the role of Faust as an "everyman." Develop a clear thesis statement, as well as a definition for the term "everyman." Apply the definition to Faust by using strong examples from the text. Explain how Faust's role as an everyman allows accessibility for the reader to identify and sympathize with the titular character, as well as reconciling this status with his more questionable actions.
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