SparkNotes: Doctor Faustus: Quiz

1. In the Prologue, who introduces the story of Doctor Faustus?

(A) The Chorus

(B) Faustus

(C) Mephastophilis

(D) Wagner

2. To which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?

(A) Hercules

(B) Perseus

(C) Icarus

(D) Theseus

3. What fields of learning does Faustus consider before he turns to magic?

(A) Chemistry, biology, and physics

(B) Logic, medicine, law, and theology

(C) Navigation, astronomy, rhetoric, and theology

(D) Grammar, history, science, and Latin

4. Which characters instruct Faustus in the dark arts?

(A) The scholars

(B) Wagner and Robin

(C) The good and bad angels

(D) Cornelius and Valdes

5. When he first summons Mephastophilis, how does Faustus ask him to appear?

(A) In the shape of a Franciscan friar

(B) In the shape of a beautiful woman

(C) As a winged creature with horns

(D) As a handsome young man

6. What is the name of the ruler of hell in Doctor Faustus?

(A) Satan

(B) Mephastophilis

(C) Lucifer

(D) Belzebub

7. How long does Faustus demand that Mephastophilis serve him?

(A) Thirty years

(B) Twenty-four years

(C) One hour

(D) A century

8. What does Faustus offer in return for this service?

(A) All his riches

(B) The life of his first-born child

(C) Nothing

(D) His soul

9. How does Faustus sign his compact with Lucifer?

(A) In his own blood

(B) In the blood of a virgin

(C) In ink produced in hell

(D) He doesn’t

10. What is the meaning of the words that appear on Faustus’s arm in Latin?

(A) “Satan’s own”

(B) “Prince of Darkness”

(C) “Fly, man”

(D) “You are doomed”

11. Who agrees, under duress, to become Wagner’s servant?

(A) Faustus

(B) The clown

(C) Belzebub

(D) Helen of Troy

12. What does Mephastophilis refuse to tell Faustus?

(A) If Faustus will be damned

(B) How many planets there are

(C) Where hell is located

(D) Who made the world

13. Why does Mephastophilis refuse to answer this question?

(A) He says that the answer is “against our kingdom”

(B) He does not know the answer

(C) He thinks that the answer is too terrifying for Faustus to hear

(D) He thinks that God will strike him down if he answers the question

14. Which city does Faustus visit extensively in scene 7?

(A) Amsterdam

(B) Berlin

(C) Rome

(D) Jerusalem

15. What trick does Faustus, while invisible, play on the pope?

(A) He makes a Bible burn in the pope’s hands

(B) He exposes the pope’s baldness

(C) He fools the pope into believing a statue is talking to him

(D) He steals dishes of food and disrupts the pope’s banquet

16. Which historical figure does Faustus conjure up for the emperor to see?

(A) Helen of Troy

(B) Jesus Christ

(C) Joan of Arc

(D) Alexander the Great

17. Which character is publicly skeptical of Faustus’s powers?

(A) Charles V

(B) The knight (also known as Benvolio)

(C) The horse-courser

(D) The ostler

18. How does Faustus humiliate this skeptic?

(A) He turns his skin green

(B) He makes him unable to speak

(C) He makes antlers sprout from the skeptic’s head

(D) He hypnotizes him and makes him strip naked

19. Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent just before he reseals his pact with Lucifer?

(A) An old man

(B) Wagner

(C) Mephastophilis

(D) The knight

20. What happens to the horse that Faustus sells to the horse-courser?

(A) It turns into a dragon

(B) It dies immediately

(C) It lives a long and healthy life

(D) It turns into a heap of straw when it goes in the water

21. What does the horse-courser think he is removing from Faustus’s body after Faustus wakes?

(A) His shirt

(B) His leg

(C) His cloak

(D) His hand

22. What does Faustus fetch for the Duchess of Vanholt?

(A) A male slave

(B) A griffin

(C) A dish of grapes

(D) A horse

23. Where, according to Mephastophilis, is hell?

(A) Everywhere that heaven is not

(B) Deep below the earth’s surface

(C) Inside Faustus’s soul

(D) Directly beneath heaven

24. What famous beauty does Mephastophilis present to Faustus in scene 12?

(A) Joan of Arc

(B) Eleanor of Aquitaine

(C) Catherine the Great

(D) Helen of Troy

25. What happens to Faustus at the end of the play?

(A) He repents and is saved

(B) He kills himself

(C) He becomes emperor of Germany

(D) He is carried off to hell