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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the eldest of the fates?
(a) Alecto.
(b) Lachesis.
(c) Atropos.
(d) Clotho.

2. 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 Thales.
(d) Anaxagoras and Xenophanes.

3. How does the group travel with the homunculus to Walpurgis Night in Scene 2 of Act II?
(a) They travel through time and space to classical Greece.
(b) They all take sleeping draughts and travel in their dreams together.
(c) They physcially walk to Walpurgis Night.
(d) They appeal to the Mothers to make their journey.

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

5. What are the female vampires called who Mephistopheles meets in Act II?
(a) Dactyles.
(b) Seismos.
(c) Lamiae.
(d) Chelone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the astrologer in Scene 2, what is the fairest star?

3. When Faust awakens in Act I, what are his impressions of his surroundings?

4. What holiday is the court preparing to celebrate in Act I?

5. According to Mephistopheles, what must one possess to receive miracles?

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