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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. What is being carried as Act 3, Scene 2 opens?
(a) A book.
(b) A candle stick.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A silver goblet.

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

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

4. What is said about Faustus in the Epilogue?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is evil.
(c) He is still alive.
(d) He gains forgiveness from God.

5. What are Faustus and Mephastophilis doing at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Preparing to return to Wittenberg.
(b) Signing Faustus's contract with Lucifer.
(c) Waiting to meet the Pope.
(d) Reading a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robin do when he grows tired of the Vintner?

2. Who does Faustus say retrieved the grapes?

3. What is Faustus doing at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 3?

4. What is Faustus doing at the beginning of Act 5, Scene 1?

5. How is the object being carried in Act 3, Scene 2 obtained?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Faustus refuse to pray to God in Act 5, Scene 2?

2. What is Faustus's final request?

3. What does Carolus ask Faustus to do in the beginning of Act 4, Scene 1?

4. Why does Faustus summon Helen of Troy during the scholars' visit?

5. What does the Old Man tell Faustus, and how does Faustus respond?

6. What important allusions are used in the Epilogue, and what do they signify?

7. What does Wagner think about Faustus's actions in Act 5, Scene 1?

8. How do the churchmen react to Faustus's invisible actions?

9. Why does Mephastophilis attack the Horse-Courser?

10. Why does Faustus allow the Horse-Courser to leave peacefully?

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