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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 is necromancy?
(a) Speaking to the devil.
(b) The magical art of raising the dead.
(c) The art of summoning demons.
(d) A relationship with God.

2. When do Valdes and Cornelius arrive?
(a) After the Good Angel and the Bad Angel leave Faustus.
(b) In the Prologue.
(c) In Act 1, Scene 2.
(d) At the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1.

3. Who appears when Act 3, Scene 2 opens?
(a) Robin and Rafe.
(b) Faustus.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Mephastophilis.

4. Whom does Mephastophilis say that he serves?
(a) Faustus.
(b) God.
(c) Lucifer.
(d) Wagner.

5. Who returns to the room, singing a dirge, in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Friars.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Faustus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives in the beginning of Act 4, Scene 2?

2. How does Carolus feel about Faustus's trick on his subject?

3. What does Faustus do when the Horse-Courser leaves?

4. From where does Mephastophilis retrieve Alexander the Great?

5. In Act 3, Scene 2, why does Robin summon Mephastophilis?

(see the answer key)

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