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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lieschen feel about Barbara?
(a) She believes Barbara is being unfairly maligned, but Barbara has no one to blame but herself.
(b) She believes Barbara is getting what she deserves.
(c) She thinks that Barbara deserves nothing but help and sympathy.
(d) She is afraid of Barbara and her bad luck.

2. Who is Valentine?
(a) Gretchen's cousin.
(b) Gretchen's brother.
(c) Gretchen's fiance.
(d) Gretchen's father.

3. Why does Mephistopheles come to Gretchen's cell at the end of the play?
(a) He is hiding from a witch.
(b) He is there to kill Gretchen.
(c) He removes his contract from Faust.
(d) He is warning Faust that he will be caught if he does not leave.

4. What does Valentine not do as he dies?
(a) He calls Gretchen a whore.
(b) He forgives Gretchen.
(c) He tells her the town will never accept or help Gretchen.
(d) He calls a curse down upon Gretchen.

5. Why does Gretchen choose this particular person to pray to during "By a Shrine Inside the Town Wall, Night"?
(a) She believes that Jesus will not judge her.
(b) She feels that she has become Mary Magdalene.
(c) She is afraid that she needs protection.
(d) She feels only the Virgin Mary will understand her pain.

6. What does Martha warn Mephistopheles about while Gretchen and Faust speak?
(a) She warns him that Faust better not hurt Gretchen.
(b) She warns him to not die a bachelor.
(c) She warns him that he will be unhappy in their town.
(d) She warns him that Gretchen is on the brink of joining a nunnery.

7. What is the Huckster-Witch attempting to do during "Walpurgis Night"?
(a) Pickpocket Faust.
(b) Cast spells of old age on the rest of the witches.
(c) Sell her body.
(d) Sell her wares.

8. What is Faust unable to convince Gretchen to do in "A Prison"?
(a) Escape with him.
(b) Forgive him.
(c) Forgive herself.
(d) Renounce God.

9. Why does Mephistopheles not disguise himself amidst the witches on the mountain?
(a) He wants to bask in their adulation.
(b) He cannot be disguised for celebrations.
(c) He does not want to deny his heritage.
(d) He knows that a disguise is pointless amongst witches.

10. What does Faust discover from Gretchen when he tries to help her escape from prison?
(a) She killed their baby.
(b) She killed her priest.
(c) She attempted suicide.
(d) She meant to murder her mother.

11. What does Mephistopheles suggest about Faust's vows of love to Gretchen in "A Street"?
(a) He will be manipulating Gretchen into doing the same.
(b) He will be lying.
(c) He will be sincere.
(d) He will be blaspheming.

12. Who torments Gretchen while she is in church?
(a) Faust.
(b) Mephistopheles.
(c) An angel.
(d) An evil spirit.

13. During "Martha's Garden," what does Gretchen discuss with Faust?
(a) His relationship to his priest.
(b) Her relationship with God.
(c) Her relationship to her mother.
(d) His relationship with Mephistopheles.

14. While considering Faust's request in "Martha's Garden," of what is Gretchen afraid?
(a) Her mother will catch them.
(b) Her mother will not approve of their marriage.
(c) God will punish her.
(d) Her reputation will be ruined.

15. While being tormented in "A Cathedral," what does Gretchen imagine happening?
(a) The giant crucifix is going to fall on her.
(b) The Communion wine has turned to blood.
(c) The body of Christ is choking her.
(d) The walls of the cathedral are closing in on her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the voice at the end of "Faust" proclaim?

2. What has worsened Barbara's plight, according to Lieschen?

3. What does Mephistopheles proclaim to be Gretchen's fate at the end of the play?

4. How does "A Cathedral" end?

5. What is the song about in "A Cathedral"?

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