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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 does Gretchen pray for in "By a Shrine Inside the Town Wall, Night"?
(a) Atonement for her sins.
(b) Forgiveness for Faust.
(c) Mephistopheles's soul.
(d) Knowledge.

2. What does Gretchen do with the daisy she picks while walking with Faust?
(a) She throws it in the fire.
(b) She plays "He loves me, he loves me not."
(c) She puts it in her hair.
(d) She throws it in the water.

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

4. From where does the voice at the end of "Faust" come?
(a) Purgatory.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) Church.

5. How does "A Cathedral" end?
(a) Gretchen dies.
(b) Gretchen attempts suicide.
(c) Gretchen renounces God.
(d) Gretchen faints.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why must Faust cling to the rocks on the mountain?

3. What does Mephistopheles warn Faust about in regards to his affections for Gretchen?

4. How does Gretchen feel about Barbara?

5. What does Martha warn Mephistopheles about while Gretchen and Faust speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comprises Valentine's final moments alive?

2. What agreement does Faust and Mephistopheles come to when the former discovers that Gretchen had been pregnant and is now in prison and why?

3. What is ironic about Mephistopheles's statement that Gretchen is doomed?

4. What visions do Faust and Mephistopheles claim to have to their dancing partners?

5. Describe the seduction of Gretchen up until the end of "A Forest Cavern."

6. After meeting Faust, how does Gretchen admit to feeling about him during "Gretchen's Room"?

7. What purpose does "At the Well" serve in terms of story and character?

8. Describe the enormity of Gretchen's sorrows.

9. What is Walpurgis Night?

10. What does Faust ask of Gretchen during "Martha's Garden" and how does she (and Mephistopheles) react to this?

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