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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 the setting of Scene 7 in Act I?
(a) A dimly illuminated Baronial Hall.
(b) The setting is not disclosed.
(c) A brightly lighted room.
(d) A beautiful pleasure garden.

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

3. What must Faust descend through to read the location given by the prophetess in Act II?
(a) The home of Hades.
(b) The Garden of Eden.
(c) The Temple of Apollo.
(d) The Temple of Demetrius.

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

5. What does Mephistopheles cure the blonde woman of in Scene 6 of Act I?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Freckles.
(c) Lice.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the opinion of the women of the court of Helen?

2. What shape does Proteus take to transport the homunculus into the ocean on his back?

3. What instrument accompanies the garden girls in Scene 3 of Act I?

4. How does the group travel with the homunculus to Walpurgis Night in Scene 2 of Act II?

5. Which figure guides the living Colossus in Scene 3 of Act I?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mephistopheles unable to see into Faust's dreams?

2. What is the primary focus and pursuit of the emperor?

3. What is symbolic about Faust's unconsciousness in the beginning of Act II?

4. Why is Faust seeking Helen in Act II?

5. In the philosophical debate featured in Scene 3 of Act II, what does Thales believe is the origin and basis of nature and matter?

6. What advice does Mephistopheles give to the young page who is having trouble attracting women in Act I?

7. When Mephistopheles pays off the debts of the emperor with notes what is the response of the court?

8. What is a homunculus and how is it made?

9. Why is Mephistopheles upset that Faust tells the emperor he can conjure the spirits of Helen and Paris?

10. What are the Mothers that Faust visits in Scene 5?

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