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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Lucifer offer to introduce Faustus?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Carolus.
(c) The Seven Deadly Sins.
(d) The Duke of Vanholt.

2. What do the devils do in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Kill the Clown.
(b) Frighten the Clown into submission at Wagner's request.
(c) Yell at Wagner for summoning them.
(d) They refuse to appear.

3. How does Mephastophilis react to Faustus's offer?
(a) He is interested and returns to hell to see if Lucifer will accept the offer.
(b) He refuses immediately.
(c) He disappears without responding.
(d) He tells Faustus it is a bad idea.

4. Who does Faustus want to see to help him choose his course of studies?
(a) Mephastophilis.
(b) Good and Bad Angels.
(c) Wagner and the Clown.
(d) Valdes and Cornelius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Faustus react the way that he does to the pending storm?

2. Who speaks in the Prologue?

3. How do the scholars feel about Faustus spending time with Valdes and Cornelius?

4. What will Robin's book allow him to do?

5. Whom do the scholars decide to visit at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Wagner and the Clown discussing at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 4?

3. How does Rafe feel about Robin's book? Why?

4. Why do the scholars ask for Faustus, and whom do they ask?

5. What happens when Mephastophilis returns in Act 2, Scene 1?

6. What is Faustus's background?

7. At the end of Act 2, Scene 3, what does Faustus ask Lucifer, and how does Lucifer respond?

8. In Act 1, Scene 1, what does Faustus send Wagner to do, and why?

9. Why does Lucifer arrive in Act 2, Scene 3? What happens when Lucifer arrives?

10. How does Faustus feel about the Seven Deadly Sins?

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