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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 5, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What specific topic does Faustus begin to study, according to the Chorus in the Prologue?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Necromancy.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Pediatrics.

2. Who is the main character in the play?
(a) Dr. John Faustus.
(b) God.
(c) Lucifer.
(d) Mephastophilis.

3. Why do Valdes, Cornelius, and Faustus leave Faustus's home at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) To find women.
(b) To attend a play.
(c) To practice their magical skills.
(d) They stay at Faustus's house.

4. What does Faustus say when the Horse-Courser attacks him toward the end of Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) He tells Mephastophilis to do something about him.
(b) He asks the attacker to leave him alone.
(c) He hits his attacker.
(d) He wants the attacker to die.

5. What does Faustus tell the Horse-Courser not to do?
(a) Take the horse into water.
(b) Yell at the horse.
(c) Talk directly to Mephastophilis.
(d) Sell the horse to someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carolus ask Faustus to do?

2. Who does the Pope think Faustus is?

3. What do the scholars assume Faustus spending time with Valdes and Cornelius means?

4. Who arrives after Faustus's first guests leave in Act 5, Scene 1?

5. Who tells Faustus that he can sleep with any woman on earth from any time?

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