Dr. Faustus MCQs

21. Reading through the play Dr. Faustus, you also compare and contrast some characters: for example, the role of …….provides comic relief contrasting the grandeur of Dr. Faustus.

a) Pop

b) Cornelius

c) Clown

d) Valdes

22. Despite Dr. Faustus becomes highly ambitious and discards his friends but they showed sympathy towards Dr. Faustus at the beginning and end of the play. They were nothing else but…….

a) cousins

b) scholars

c) neighbors

d) relatives

23. The Pop Benedict in the play Dr. Faustus is considered to be a symbol of religion also provides some……

a) Knowledge

b) Courage

c) Entertainment 

d) Wisdom

24. Dr. Faustus visits several places where he provides the reader with chances to learn and enjoy: for example, he visited the court of ………

a) Emperor Charles V

b) King Harry 11

c) King Stephen

d) King Richard 1

25. Ah Stay good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps!

   I see an angel hovers o’er thy head,

And, with a vial full of precious grace,

Offers to pour the same into thy soul

Then call for mercy, and avoid despair! ( Act 5: scene 12, lines 49-53)

Who is giving hope of redemption to Dr. Faustus?

a) First Scholar

b) Old man

c) Third Scholar

d) The Chorus  

26. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I’ll visit

You: if not— Faustus is gone to hell. (Act 5, scene 12, lines 61-61)

Who is speaking these words?

a) Wager

b) old man

c) Second scholar

d) Dr. Faustus

27. O Faustus lay that damned book aside,

And gaze not on it lest it tempts thy soul

And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head.

Read, read the scriptures: that is blasphemy. (Act:1 scene 4 lines; 97-100)

Which book is being condemned in these lines?

a) book of Astronomy

b) Magical book

c) Book of Jurisprudence

d) Book of Theology

28. Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art

Wherein all nature’s treasury is contained.

Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky,

Lord and Commander of these elements. (Act:1, Scene 4; lines101-104)

Who is convincing Faustus to learn black magic?

a) Bad angel

b) Mephastophilis

c) Lucifer

d) Cornelius

29. Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit?

Be I a devil, yet God may pity me.

Yea, God will pity me if I repent. (Act:2, scene:2, lines585-587)

Who is being addressed by Faustus with the hope of redemption?

a) Old man

b) First scholar

c) Bad angel

d) Good angel

30. On God, whom Faustus hath abjured? On God, whom

Faustus hath blasphemed? O my God, I would weep, but the

Devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood instead of

tears, yea life, and soul. Oh, he stays my tongue. I would

lift my hands, but see they hold ’em, they hold ’em. (Act:5:scene2:lines1947-51)

These lines assert Faustus was …….

a) Tragic hero

b) Villain

c) Devil

d) Hopeful