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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two "orders" support the throne, according to the Chancellor in Scene 2 of Act I?
(a) The soldiers and the clergy.
(b) The common people and the clergy.
(c) The advisors and the soldiers.
(d) The clergy and the knights.

2. How has Mephistopheles paid people in the empire in Act I?
(a) He has not paid anyone in the empire.
(b) Through paper notes signed by the emperor.
(c) He paid them with jewels from the emperor's treasure chamber.
(d) With gold he found buried in the kingdom.

3. Who is specifically told to remain behind in his study rather than travel with the homunculus to Walpurgis Night?
(a) Famulus.
(b) Baccalaureus.
(c) Mephistopheles.
(d) Wagner.

4. Who responds to Mephistopheles ringing the bell in Act II?
(a) Faust.
(b) Baccalaureus.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Famulus.

5. What is the eldest of the fates?
(a) Alecto.
(b) Clotho.
(c) Atropos.
(d) Lachesis.

6. How does the homunculus appear in the beginning of Scene 3 of Act II?
(a) As water.
(b) As a light in a bottle.
(c) As a slightly darkened cloud.
(d) As the reflection on a mirror.

7. Who is the first mind that is read by the homunculus?
(a) Wagner.
(b) Faust.
(c) Mephistopheles.
(d) Famulus.

8. What does Mephistopheles cure the blonde woman of in Scene 6 of Act I?
(a) Depression.
(b) Lice.
(c) Freckles.
(d) Insomnia.

9. What holiday is the court preparing to celebrate in Act I?
(a) Winter Solstice.
(b) Day of the Kings.
(c) May Day.
(d) Carnival.

10. What does Mephistopheles give Faust to help him on his journey to conjure Helen and Paris?
(a) A dark cloak.
(b) A map of the underworld.
(c) A password.
(d) A magical key.

11. What is the setting of Scene 3 in Act II?
(a) The setting is not given.
(b) The plains of Pharsalus.
(c) The main square of Athens.
(d) The temple of Athena.

12. Who must Faust go to, in order to conjure Helen and Paris?
(a) The Fates.
(b) Mephistopheles.
(c) The Mothers.
(d) The Graces.

13. Which despicable and noxious creatures does Mephistopheles eventually find as the true embodiment of ugliness in Act II?
(a) Phorkyads.
(b) Giants.
(c) Cabiri.
(d) Pigmies.

14. Why does Faust try to dispel Paris in Scene 7 of Act I?
(a) He wants Helen for himself.
(b) Mephistopheles instructs him to.
(c) He is bored with Paris.
(d) He's trying to protect Paris from the men at court.

15. 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) He wants to seek out Achilles.
(d) The homunculus suggests that he goes off on his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has replaced Faust in his position at the University in Act II?

2. Who tells the emperor they are out of wine in Scene 2 of Act I?

3. What is the name of the prophetess that Chiron takes Faust to in Act II?

4. What news does the marshal bring the emperor in the beginning of Scene 4 of Act I?

5. What is the job of Nereus?

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