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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the two philosophers that the homunculus comes upon in Scene 3 of Act II?
(a) Socrates and Plato.
(b) Heraclitus and Thales.
(c) Anaxagoras and Xenophanes.
(d) Anaxagoras and Thales.

2. How has Mephistopheles paid people in the empire in Act I?
(a) He has not paid anyone in the empire.
(b) With gold he found buried in the kingdom.
(c) Through paper notes signed by the emperor.
(d) He paid them with jewels from the emperor's treasure chamber.

3. Who is the first mind that is read by the homunculus?
(a) Mephistopheles.
(b) Faust.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Famulus.

4. Which is not a name of the graces mentioned in Scene 3 of Act I?
(a) Lachesis.
(b) Hegemony.
(c) Aglaia.
(d) Euphrosyne.

5. How does the homunculus appear in the beginning of Scene 3 of Act II?
(a) As water.
(b) As the reflection on a mirror.
(c) As a light in a bottle.
(d) As a slightly darkened cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the eldest of the fates?

2. What is the name of the daughter of Nereus, who is expected to return to the sea in Act II?

3. What does Phoebe's wheels symbolize in Act I, Scene 1?

4. What ancient mythological figure does the Astrologer compare Faust with in Scene 7 of Act I?

5. Who must Faust go to, in order to conjure Helen and Paris?

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