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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Faustus feel about the benefits of selling his soul?
(a) Like he has betrayed God.
(b) Overjoyed because he can truly enjoy life now.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Apprehensive.

2. What must Faustus use to sign the contract?
(a) A pen.
(b) His blood.
(c) A pencil.
(d) A chicken's blood.

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

4. Who tells Faustus that it is not too late to turn back?
(a) The Good Angel.
(b) The Bad Angel.
(c) God.
(d) Wagner.

5. What does Faustus's thoughts soon turn away from?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) His family.
(c) Magic.
(d) Theology.

6. What general topic does Faustus begin to study while neglecting his former studies, according to the Chorus in the Prologue?
(a) Magic.
(b) Law.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Medicine.

7. What set of books does Faustus ask for?
(a) Books to control women.
(b) Books to summon troops of knights.
(c) Books to give him power over all the other demons and knowledge of the entire earth and universe.
(d) Books to control the weather.

8. What is Faustus very tempted to study in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Law.
(b) Magic.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Philosophy.

9. Who arrives to vie for Faustus's soul in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) Mephastophilis.
(c) The Good and Bad Angels.
(d) God and Lucifer.

10. How does Robin's friend feel about Robin's offer?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Worried.

11. What does Wagner want to do in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Hire the Clown as his servant.
(b) Sleep with a woman.
(c) Summon Mephastophilis.
(d) Kill Faustus.

12. What does Robin intend to use the book for?
(a) To find a wife.
(b) To make women dance naked in front of him and pleasure him.
(c) To offer his soul to Lucifer.
(d) To make thunderstorms.

13. In Act 2, Scene 2, who owned the object that Robin is carrying before Robin obtained it?
(a) Faustus.
(b) Rafe.
(c) Mephastophilis.
(d) Wagner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Robin first appear in "Dr. Faustus"?

2. What does Faustus command the demon to reappear as?

3. Why do the scholars decide to visit someone at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

4. What do the devils do in Act 1, Scene 4?

5. Why do the scholars feel the way they do about Faustus spending time with Valdes and Cornelius?

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