MCQs - "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe
SET-1
1.
What does Faustus offer in return for Mephistopheles’s service?
a)
All his riches
b) The life of his first-born child
c) Nothing
d) His soul
Answer: d) His soul
2.
Who introduces the story of Doctor Faustus in the Prologue?
a)
The Chorus
b) Faustus
c) Mephistopheles
d) Wagner
Answer: a) The Chorus
3.
What does the Good Angel urge Faustus to think about?
a)
Hell
b) Heaven
c) His reputation
d) His life choices
Answer: b) Heaven
4.
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
Answer: d) He is carried off to hell
5.
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
Answer: a) In his own blood
6.
What is the name of the ruler of hell in Doctor Faustus?
a)
Satan
b) Mephistopheles
c) Lucifer
d) Beelzebub
Answer: c) Lucifer
7.
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
Answer: d) He steals dishes of food and disrupts the pope’s banquet
8.
Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent just before he reseals his pact with
Lucifer?
a)
An old man
b) Wagner
c) Mephistopheles
d) The knight
Answer: a) An old man
9.
What famous beauty does Mephistopheles present to Faustus in scene 12?
a)
Joan of Arc
b) Eleanor of Aquitaine
c) Catherine the Great
d) Helen of Troy
Answer: d) Helen of Troy
10.
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
Answer: b) His leg
11.
What does Faustus fetch for the Duchess of Vanholt?
a)
A male slave
b) A griffin
c) A dish of grapes
d) A horse
Answer: c) A dish of grapes
12.
According to Mephistopheles, where is hell?
a)
Everywhere that heaven is not
b) Deep below the earth’s surface
c) Inside Faustus’s soul
d) Directly beneath heaven
Answer: a) Everywhere that heaven is not
13.
What is the meaning of the words that appear on Faustus’s arm ("Homo
fuge") mean?
a)
O man, cry
b) O man, walk
c) O man, sink
d) O man, fly
Answer: d) O man, fly
14.
What happens when Faustus tries to use his blood to write the deed?
a)
He doesn't bleed
b) His blood congeals
c) He faints
d) The paper is ruined
Answer: b) His blood congeals
15.
How does Faustus humiliate the skeptical knight (Benvolio)?
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
Answer: c) He makes antlers sprout from the skeptic’s head
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16.
What pulled the chariot that took Faustus through the heavens?
a)
Dragons
b) Horses
c) Devils
d) Doves
Answer: a) Dragons
17.
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
Answer: d) Alexander the Great
18.
Who agrees, under duress, to become Wagner’s servant?
a)
Faustus
b) The clown
c) Beelzebub
d) Helen of Troy
Answer: b) The clown
19.
What does Mephistopheles 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
Answer: d) Who made the world
20.
Why does Mephistopheles 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
Answer: a) He says that the answer is “against our kingdom”
21.
What does Faustus wish he was, so that upon death he would simply cease to be?
a)
A beast
b) A fairy
c) A plant
d) A play
Answer: a) A beast
22.
Which city does Faustus visit extensively in scene 7?
a)
Amsterdam
b) Berlin
c) Rome
d) Jerusalem
Answer: c) Rome
23.
What does the horse-courser do first to try and wake Faustus?
a)
Throws water on him
b) Shakes him
c) Yells in his ear
d) Sets him on fire
Answer: c) Yells in his ear
24.
What does the horse-courser run away with?
a)
Faustus's leg
b) Faustus's money
c) Faustus's arm
d) Faustus's head
Answer: a) Faustus's leg
25.
In the B text, what do Faustus and Mephistopheles disguise themselves as when
meeting the pope?
a)
Bishops
b) Swiss guards
c) Cardinals
d) Angels
Answer: c) Cardinals
26.
Who was attempting to become pope with the backing of the German emperor?
a)
Brutus
b) Bruno
c) Brian
d) Bertie
Answer: b) Bruno
27.
What do Faustus and Mephistopheles do during the pope's dinner?
a)
Make themselves invisible
b) Curse noisily
c) Box the pope's ear
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above
28.
What have Robin and Rafe stolen from a tavern?
a)
A cup
b) A wine skin
c) A knife
d) A ham
Answer: a) A cup
29.
Who asks Faustus to make Helen of Troy appear?
a)
Wagner
b) Mephistopheles
c) One of the scholars
d) Lucifer
Answer: c) One of the scholars
30.
In Scene 13, as the clock strikes eleven, what does Faustus see?
a)
A huge feast
b) His family and friends
c) A vision of Heaven
d) A vision of Hell
Answer: d) A vision of Hell
31.
Christopher Marlowe was an actor, poet, and playwright during the reign of
which monarch?
a)
Elizabeth I
b) James I
c) Victoria
d) Henry VIII
Answer: a) Elizabeth I
32.
What religion was Marlowe suspected of having converted to, leading Cambridge
to try to withhold his degree?
a)
Buddhism
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Catholicism
Answer: d) Catholicism
33.
The immediate source of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is most
likely an anonymous German work dating from ___.
a)
1390
b) 1453
c) 1501
d) 1587
Answer: d) 1587
34.
How many plays did Marlowe produce before being killed in a tavern brawl in
1593?
a)
Two
b) Five
c) Seven
d) Ten
Answer: c) Seven
35.
Johannes Faustus, the real-life figure to whom the tale about selling one's
soul became attached, was ___.
a)
A doctor
b) An astrologer
c) A schoolteacher
d) A German prince
Answer: b) An astrologer
36.
Faustus grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of ___.
a)
Travel
b) Knowledge
c) Magic
d) Cookery
Answer: b) Knowledge
37.
How does Faustus begin his new career as a magician?
a)
By summoning a devil
b) By summoning a fairy
c) By summoning an angel
d) By summoning an audience
Answer: a) By summoning a devil
38.
What does Faustus do first with his new powers?
a)
Paint
b) Start a family
c) Travel
d) Relax
Answer: c) Travel
39.
Faustus sells the horse-courser a horse: what does it turn into when ridden
into a river?
a)
Wood
b) Gold
c) Stone
d) Straw
Answer: d) Straw
40.
Who does Faustus summon towards the end of his twenty-four-year deal?
a)
Alexander the Great
b) Helen of Troy
c) A host of devils
d) An old man
Answer: b) Helen of Troy
41.
Which characteristic does Faustus lack?
a)
Ambition
b) Brilliance
c) Indecisiveness
d) Inner strength
Answer: c) Indecisiveness
42.
What word describes Mephistopheles’s motivations?
a)
Ambiguous
b) Concrete
c) Amiable
d) Comical
Answer: a) Ambiguous
43.
Which two characters represent Faustus's conscience?
a)
The Clown, Robin
b) Valdes, Cornelius
c) Good Angel, Evil Angel
d) Martino, Frederick
Answer: c) Good Angel, Evil Angel
44.
What is Robin's profession?
a)
Clown
b) Ostler or innkeeper
c) A scholar
d) A horse-courser
Answer: b) Ostler or innkeeper
45.
Who hears Faustus's confession of his pact with Lucifer?
a)
The scholars
b) The pope
c) Emperor Charles V
d) Wagner
Answer: a) The scholars
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SET-2
101.
"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)
Wagner
b) Old man
c) Second scholar
d) Dr. Faustus
Answer: d) Dr. Faustus
102.
"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
Answer: b) Magical book
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SET-3
1.
Who wrote the play 'Dr Faustus'?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. John Donne
d. Thomas Middleton
Answer: b. Christopher Marlowe
2.
What is the genre of 'Dr Faustus'?
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy
c. Romance
d. Epic
Answer: a. Tragedy
3.
In which century was 'Dr Faustus' written?
a. 16th century
b. 17th century
c. 18th century
d. 19th century
Answer: a. 16th century
4.
What is the main theme of 'Dr Faustus'?
a. Love and Betrayal
b. Redemption and Salvation
c. Greed and Temptation
d. War and Conflict
Answer: c. Greed and Temptation
5.
Who is the protagonist of 'Dr Faustus'?
a. Mephistopheles
b. Lucifer
c. Faustus
d. Wagner
Answer: c. Faustus
6.
Who does Faustus summon in the beginning of the play?
a. Mephistopheles
b. Lucifer
c. God
d. Helen of Troy
Answer: a. Mephistopheles
7.
Which classical figure does Faustus not mention in his opening soliloquy?
a) Aristotle
b) Galen
c) Virgil
d) Socrates
Answer: d) Socrates
8.
What does Faustus demand Mephastophilis bring him first?
a) A wife
b) A book of spells
c) Riches
d) Knowledge of astronomy
Answer: a) A wife
9.
What is the name of Faustus' servant?
a. Robin
b. Wagner
c. Valdes
d. Cornelius
Answer: b. Wagner
10.
What happens to Faustus at the end of the play?
a. He repents and is saved
b. He dies and goes to hell
c. He is pardoned by God
d. He lives a long and happy life
Answer: b. He dies and goes to hell
11.
Who is the scholar who tries to persuade Faustus to repent?
a. Valdes
b. Cornelius
c. Good Angel
d. Old Man
Answer: d. Old Man
12.
Which character speaks the famous line, "Was this the face that launched a
thousand ships"?
a. Faustus
b. Mephistopheles
c. Helen of Troy
d. The Chorus
Answer: a. Faustus
13.
What does Faustus demand from Mephistopheles in exchange for his soul?
a. Wealth and power
b. Love and happiness
c. Knowledge and pleasure
d. Immortality
Answer: c. Knowledge and pleasure
14.
Who does Faustus meet during his travels with Mephistopheles?
a. The Pope
b. The Emperor
c. Alexander the Great
d. All of the above
Answer: d. All of the above
15.
Who writes the letter that Faustus receives warning him about the dangers of
his pact with the devil?
a. The Pope
b. Valdes and Cornelius
c. An anonymous friend
d. The Old Man
Answer: d. The Old Man
16.
Who speaks the famous line, "Faustus, thou art damned"?
a. Mephistopheles
b. Lucifer
c. The Good Angel
d. The Old Man
Answer: d. The Old Man
17.
What is the significance of the line, "The stars move still, time runs,
the clock will strike"?
a. It signifies the passing of time and the impending doom of Faustus
b. It represents the power of the universe and the inevitability of fate
c. It symbolizes the futility of human endeavors and the ultimate victory of
death
d. It emphasizes the supernatural nature of Faustus' pact with the devil
Answer: a. It signifies the passing of time and the impending doom of Faustus
18.
Who offers Faustus the opportunity to repent at the end of the play?
a. The Old Man
b. Mephistopheles
c. Lucifer
d. God
Answer: a. The Old Man
19.
What is the name of the comic subplot in 'Dr Faustus'?
a. The Horse-Courser's Plot
b. The Benvolio-Dick subplot
c. The Valdes-Cornelius subplot
d. The Wagner-Robin subplot
Answer: d. The Wagner-Robin subplot
20.
What is the source of the story of Dr. Faustus?
a) Greek mythology
b) The Bible
c) German folklore
d) Shakespeare's plays
Answer: c) German folklore
21.
Which character speaks the famous lines, "Why this is hell, nor am I out
of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal
joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of
everlasting bliss?"?
a. Faustus
b. Mephistopheles
c. The Old Man
d. The Good Angel
Answer: b. Mephistopheles
22.
What is the name of the angel who tries to save Faustus from damnation?
a. Lucifer
b. Mephistopheles
c. The Good Angel
d. The Evil Angel
Answer: c. The Good Angel
23.
What is the name of the devil who is Faustus' primary tempter?
a. Mephistopheles
b. Beelzebub
c. Belial
d. Lucifer
Answer: a. Mephistopheles
24.
What is the name of Faustus' love interest, whom Faustus summon with his final
conjuring?
a. Helen
b. Gretchen
c. Juliet
d. Isabella
Answer: a. Helen of Troy
25.
What is the name of the devil who appears as a Franciscan friar?
a. Mephistopheles
b. Beelzebub
c. Belial
d. Asmodeus
Answer: a. Mephistopheles
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Thanks for uploading MCQs ,its really helpful but please kindly check the answer of question no . What is the name of the devil who appears as a Franciscan friar? I think the answer will be mephi....
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