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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the Good and Bad Angels come to Faustus?
(a) To give him advice.
(b) Because they are friends.
(c) They do not visit Faustus.
(d) To torment him.

3. Who speaks in the Prologue?
(a) Good and Bad Angels.
(b) The chorus.
(c) Faustus.
(d) Lucifer.

4. How many scholars appear in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. To what does the term "waxen wings" in line 21 of the Prologue allude?
(a) A wax figure.
(b) A wax museum.
(c) The fall of Icarus.
(d) The fall of Lucifer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Faustus go to study?

2. What do the scholars wonder in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. To whom do the scholars pose their question in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. What does the Bad Angel advise Faustus to do?

5. What does Faustus's thoughts soon turn away from?

(see the answer key)

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