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UNIT- 1 : Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

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1) With the help of Mephistophilis, to which place does Faustus travelled in the dragon chariot to view the whole universe?

A:) venice

B:) olympus

C:) cathedral

D:) European cities

springline's Correct option: B


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2) Fill the blank with appropriate word

“Be a _____,  Faustus; heap up gold,”

A:) physician

B:) theologist

C:) justinian

D:) mathematician

springline's Correct option: A


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3) Comprehend the below given play’s line (from Doctor Faustus) q.no: 3 and 4

“ Lines, circle, scenes, letters, and characters;

Ay, these are most that Faustus most desires.

O, what a world of profit and delight,

Of power, of honour, of omnipotent,

Is promised to the studious artizan!

All things that move between the quit poles”

What is the meaning of ‘omnipotent’

A:) Faustus

B:) Angel

C:) Devil

D:) God

springline's Correct option: D


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4) Comprehend the below given play’s line (from Doctor Faustus) q.no: 3 and 4

“ Lines, circle, scenes, letters, and characters;

Ay, these are most that Faustus most desires.

O, what a world of profit and delight,

Of power, of honour, of omnipotent,

Is promised to the studious artizan!

All things that move between the quit poles”

Who is the “studious artisan”

A:) Faustus

B:) Mephistophilis

C:) Lucifer

D:) God

springline's Correct option: A


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5) “O lente lente currite, noctis equi!

In the above given Marlowe’s line from Faustus is a quote from which work?

A:) Ovid’s Ars amatoria

B:) Ovid’s Heroides

C:) Ovid’s Metamorphoses

D:) Ovid’s Amores

springline's Correct option: D


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6) The below given line of Doctor Faustus belongs to which Act and scene?

“… this is hell nor am I out of it :

Think’st thou that I, who swathe face of God,

And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,

Am not tormented with ten thousand hills.

In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?”

A:) Act I scence I

B:) Act I scence III

C:) Act II scence II

D:) Act II scence III

springline's Correct option: B


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7) Why Lucifer in Doctor Faustus presented the spectacle of the Seven Deadly Sins?

A:) to divert Faustus from thinking God

B:) to introduce the important member of hell

C:) to ensure the importance of Seven Deadly Sins

D:) to make Faustus acquaint with members of hell

springline's Correct option: A


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8) Who is personified as a second edition of king Midas in Doctor Faustus?

A:) Lechery

B:) Envy

C:) Wrath

D:) Covetousness

springline's Correct option: D


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9) In Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Act III-scene I commences in

A:) papal

B:) the Pope’s privy chamber

C:) prayer hall in church

D:) cathedral

springline's Correct option: B

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10) Who said the following line in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus?

“O, that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die and I live alone.”

A:) Sloth

B:) pride

C:) Covet

D:) Envy

springline's Correct option: D


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11) “Talk not of paradise nor creation; but mark this show: talk of devil and nothing else.”

Who said the above lines to whom in Doctor Faustus?

A:) Mesphistophilis to Faustus

B:) Lucifer to Faustus

C:) Faustus to good angel

D:) Lucifer to Mesphistophilis

springline's Correct option: B


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12) Who is begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster wife in the play Faustus by Marlowe?

A:) Envy

B:) Covetness

C:) Sloth

D:) pride

springline's Correct option: A


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13) Who is born out of lion’s mouth without father and mother in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus?

A:) pride

B:) lechery

C:) Covet

D:) Wrath

springline's Correct option: D


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14) Whose book contains the secretes of astronomy in Faustus?

A:) June

B:) Jove

C:) Jupiter

D:) Mars

springline's Correct option: B


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15) Which devil did Faustus summons to fulfil his wish?

A:) Lucifer

B:) Beelzebub

C:) Bablio

D:) Mephistophilis

springline's Correct option: D


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16) What did Faustus uses in exchange for 24 voluptuous years?

A:) his soul

B:) life on earth

C:) intelligence

D:) knowledge

springline's Correct option: A


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17) How many times did angel appeared to faustus throughout the play?

A:) five times

B:) four times

C:) three times

D:) two times

springline's Correct option: B


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18) Under whose request Faustus brought Helen of Troy?

A:) Wagner

B:) Scholars

C:) Robin

D:) Knight

springline's Correct option: B


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19) Who insist Faustus that hell is real?

A:) Lucifer

B:) Satan

C:) Mephistophilis

D:) Beelzebub

springline's Correct option: C


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20) Faustus is dissatisfied with traditional form of ____

A:) magic

B:) cookery

C:) travel

D:) knowledge

springline's Correct option: D


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21) In which year Marlowe got killed in tavern brawl?

A:) 1590

B:) 1589

C:) 1595

D:) 1593

springline's Correct option: D


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22) The last act of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus happens in ____

A:) in Rome

B:) in Emperor’s Palace

C:) in Faustus’ House

D:) in a Grove

springline's Correct option: C


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23) What is the meaning of Homo fuge! That was inscribed in the arm of Faustus in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) Flee O! Man

B:) O! slow down

C:) repent O! Man

D:) .repent and flee

springline's Correct option: A


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24) In the end of the play what happened to Faustus?

A:) he is carried of to hell

B:) he kills himself

C:) he is saved by God

D:) he went to heaven

springline's Correct option: A


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25) Whose grandfather is Gammon of Bacon and grandmother is Hogshead of Claret-wine in Marlowe’s Faustus?

A:) lechery

B:) gluttony

C:) envy

D:) pride

springline's Correct option: B


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26) Find the odd one among the Trojan characters involved in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus.

A:) Achilles

B:) Menelaus

C:) Agamemnon

D:) Helen

springline's Correct option: C


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27) Who is ready to sell his soul for a shoulder of mutton?

A:) Clown

B:) Robin

C:) Wagner

D:) Valdes

springline's Correct option: A


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28) What is Elysium mentioned in Act I scene III in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) Hell

B:) Heaven

C:) Earth

D:) Olympus

springline's Correct option: A


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29) Marlowe uses finest form of poetry in_____

A:) chorus

B:) final hours of Faustus

C:) first act of the play

D:) describing Faustus mediocrity

springline's Correct option: B


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30) What is the term used for calling the black spirit in lexical format?

A:) incantation

B:) chronographia

C:) necromancy

D:) conjuration

springline's Correct option: B


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31) How many plays Marlowe produced before his death?

A:) eight

B:) seven

C:) six

D:) five

springline's Correct option: B


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32) Choose the perfect description of hell given by Mephistophilis in Faustus

A:) deep down the earth

B:) inside the soul

C:) everywhere that heaven is not

D:) deep down the sea

springline's Correct option: C


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33) In Doctor Faustus, the dispute between Faustus and Mephistophilis centres around whose theories?

A:) Socratic and Ptolemy

B:) Socratic and Plato

C:) Plato and Aristotle

D:) Aristotle and Ptolemy

springline's Correct option: D


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34) What happened to the horse sold by Faustus to horse course?

A:) by entering into water, it turned into straw

B:) it died suddenly

C:) it got stronger by drinking water

D:) magic turned it to a goat

springline's Correct option: A


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35) “Think’st thou That, after this life, there is any pain?

Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives’ tale”

The above given quote of Doctor Faustus belongs to which act and scene?

A:) Act II scene I

B:) Act I scene II

C:) Act V scene III

D:) Act III scene II

springline's Correct option: A


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36) What is the name of the knight who is skeptical about Faustus’s power?

A:) Balliol

B:) Benvolio

C:) Ostler

D:) Charles

springline's Correct option: B


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37) Pick the river that is not mentioned by Faustus in the play Doctor Faustus.

A:) Styx

B:) Acheson

C:) Phlegethon

D:) Lathe

springline's Correct option: D


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38) Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent and to ask the help from god?

A:) scholars

B:) wagner

C:) old man

D:) frair

springline's Correct option: C


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39) How long does Mephistophilis served Faustus?

A:) a decade

B:) two decades and four years

C:) three decades and four years

D:) one decades and four years

springline's Correct option: B


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40) Doctor Faustus belongs to which university _____

A:) Witernberg

B:) Oxford

C:) Paris

D:) Cambridge

springline's Correct option: A


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41) The wise women Sheba mentioned by Faustus belongs to which country?

A:) Arabia

B:) Greek

C:) Europe

D:) Italy

springline's Correct option: A


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42) The Faustbuch tradition survived throughout the early modern period and the legend was again adopted by German author_____

A:) Ludwig Ganghofer

B:) Johann Von Goethe

C:) Christian Grabbe

D:) Jeremias Gotthelf

springline's Correct option: B


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43) Who agrees to become Wagner’s servant in Doctor Faustus?

A:) the Clown

B:) Beelzebub

C:) Ralph

D:) Robin

springline's Correct option: A


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44) What are the field does Faustus rejected before settling in his studies?

Choose the odd one

A:) logic

B:) law

C:) latin

D:) medicine

springline's Correct option: C


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45) The tragical play Doctor Faustus begins with ____

A:) Prologue

B:) Chorus

C:) monologue

D:) conversation

springline's Correct option: B


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46) “What are you, Mistress Minx, the seventh and last?

Which sin does Faustus refers by the above line?

A:) Luchery

B:) Gluttony

C:) Sloth

D:) Envy

springline's Correct option: A


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47) In Doctor Faustus, what is the name Gluttony’s god fathers?

A:) Martin March-beer, Martin Martlemas-beef

B:) Peter pickle-herring, Martin Martlemas-beef

C:) Martin Martlemas-beef, Peter March-beer

D:) Claret Bacon-wine, Peter pickle-herring

springline's Correct option: B


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48) “My lord, it may be some ghost, newly crept out of purgatory, come to beg a pardon of your holiness” (Doctor Faustus)

What is purgatory?

A:) part of hell where souls are purified

B:) part of heaven where souls are purified

C:) part of cathedral where souls are purified

D:) part of underworld where souls are purified

springline's Correct option: A


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49) Than when Sir Paris cross'd the sea with her

And brought the spoil to rich Dardania

Who is the central character of above mentioned lines taken from Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) Dardania

B:) Penelope

C:) Helen

D:) Sheba

springline's Correct option: C


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50) In Faustus who desired for ripe grape in the month of January?

A:) Duke

B:) Duchess

C:) knight

D:) Emperor

springline's Correct option: B


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51) Which character in Marlowe’s Faustus express the wish in the below given line?

“I would desire that this house and all the people in it were turned to gold, that I might lock you up in my good chest. O, my sweet gold.”

A:) wrath

B:) glutton

C:) covetousness

D:) envy

springline's Correct option: C


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52) What does First Scholar mean by paragon in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) fair

B:) unequalled beauty

C:) strange beauty

D:) dashing beauty

springline's Correct option: B


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53) How many times was Helen awaken by Mephistophilis in Doctor Faustus?

A:) 2

B:) 3

C:) 4

D:) none of the above

springline's Correct option: A


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54) Cursed be he that disturbeth our holy dirge! Maledicat Dominic!

What is Maledicat Dominic in the above line of Doctor Faustus?

A:) May the world curse him!

B:) May the fairies curse him!

C:) May all saints curse him!

D:) May the Lord curse him!

springline's Correct option: D


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55) On whose command did Faustus brought Alexander the Great and his paramour?

A:) Duke

B:) Emperor

C:) Duchess

D:) scholar

springline's Correct option: B


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56) Who delivers the Delphian Oracle mentioned in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) priestess of temple of Apollo

B:) priestess of temple of Jupiter

C:) priestess of temple of Jove

D:) priestess of temple of Venus

springline's Correct option: A


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57) Who said the following lines in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus?

‘Let your Balio and Belcher come here.

I’ll knock them’.

A:) Wagner

B:) Clown

C:) Biano

D:) Knight

springline's Correct option: B


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58) Who is the paragon of excellence mentioned in the below lines in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

“Since we have seen the pride of nature's word,

And only paragon of excellence,”

A:) Alexander

B:) Helen

C:) Duchess

D:) Penelope

springline's Correct option: B


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59) “And take some part of holy Peter’s feast

That to this day is highly solemniz’d” which day is chosen to celebrate holy Peter’s feast?

A:) 4th of july

B:) 28th of june

C:) 5th of july

D:) 29th of june

springline's Correct option: D


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60) Robin, the Ostler, with a book in his hand.(Doctor Faustus)

What is Ostler in the above line?

A:) pastor

B:) layman

C:) stableman

D:) conman

springline's Correct option: C


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61) What is the literary device used in the below line?

“Let us depart; and for this glorious deed

Happy and blest be Faustus evermore.”

A:) Irony

B:) parody

C:) satire

D:) pun

springline's Correct option: A


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62) “Is stoutly to injure the Trinity,”

What Trinity did Mephistophilis (in Doctors Faustus ) mentioned  in the above line?

A:) Satan, sin, death

B:) Lucifer, Belzeebub, Mephistophilis

C:) Father, son, ghost

D:) Satan, Mephistophilis, Faustus

springline's Correct option: C


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63) Faustus traded his soul for how many years of uninterrupted voluptuous enjoyment?

A:) 27

B:) 25

C:) 24

D:) 22

springline's Correct option: C


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64) Where does Act IV scene V of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus takes place?

A:) in a court

B:) in a street

C:) the Court of the Duke of Vanholt

D:) a Room in Faustus House

springline's Correct option: C


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65) What action of Wagner, angered Clown in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) taking swowns

B:) calling him sirrah

C:) for leaving him struggle with Belcher

D:) calling him as selfish

springline's Correct option: B


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66) Than when Sir Paris cross'd the sea with her

And brought the spoil to rich Dardania

What is Dardania in the above mention line from the play Doctor Faustus?

A:) name of a person

B:) name of a place

C:) location of Menelaus

D:) a fantasy world on earth

springline's Correct option: B


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67) What kind of tags did Marlowe sprinkled in his work Doctor Faustus?

A:) Greek

B:) French

C:) Spanish

D:) Latin

springline's Correct option: C


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68) Who doubts the power of Faustus in the Emperor’s Palace at Innsbruck?

A:) Knight

B:) Attendent

C:) Duke

D:) Wagner

springline's Correct option: A


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69) Doctor Faustus is based on a real person, a German scholar called____

A:) Dr. Johann George Faust

B:) Johann George Hamann

C:) Johann Christian Gunther

D:) Johann Christoph Gottsched

springline's Correct option: A


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70) “Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts:”

What is the literary device used in the above line?

A:) Consonance

B:) Assonance

C:) Alliteration

D:) onomatopoeia

springline's Correct option: C


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71) For how many dollars/ pound did Faustus sold his hay horse?

A:) 40 dollars

B:) 40 pounds

C:) 45 dollars

D:) 45 pounds

springline's Correct option: A


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72) To whom did Marlowe compares Faustus thoughts of stopping time in order to escape from hell?

A:) Ovidian lover

B:) Semele

C:) Midas

D:) Lechery

springline's Correct option: A


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73) Marlowe through Doctor Faustus gives an old ____ a glowing Renaissance setting.

A:) mesolitic legend

B:) paleolithic legend

C:) neolithic tale

D:) medieval legend

springline's Correct option: D


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74) Who said he following words?

“I see an angel hovers over thy head

And with a lial full of precious grace

Offer to pour the same into thy soul”

A:) good angel

B:) old man

C:) wagner

D:) cornelius

springline's Correct option: B


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75) “Peccatum peccatorum!--Here's Thu goblet, good vintner”(Doctor Faustus)

What is Peccatum peccatorum! In the above given line?

A:) Sinner of sinners

B:) in the name of lord

C:) May the gods favour

D:) being and not being

springline's Correct option: A


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76) “No, Sir, but, when Actaeon died, he left the horns for you.”

The above given line is uttered by Faustus in Doctor Faustus. To whom did he addressed the above line?

A:) Horse-courser

B:) Knight

C:) Duke

D:) Wagner

springline's Correct option: B


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77) Who said “the miracle that magic will perform

Will make thee vow to study nothing else” in Doctor Faustus?

A:) Mephestophilis

B:) Lucifer

C:) bad angel

D:) Cornelius

springline's Correct option: D


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78) As a magician, Faustus hopes to become equal to the magician ____

A:) Agrippa

B:) Cornelis

C:) Roldes

D:) Lucifer

springline's Correct option: A


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79) “Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals"

What does Faustus mean by “Enrich'd with tongues,” in the above line?

A:) perfect orator

B:) possess thorough knowledge of ancient language

C:) well versed in language

D:) one who possess knowledge about languages

springline's Correct option: B


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80) “And bring with him his beauteous paramour,

Both in their right shapes, gesture and attire”

Who is the beauteous paramour mentioned in the above line from Doctor Faustus?

A:) Penelope

B:) Saba

C:) Thais

D:) Helen

springline's Correct option: C


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81) Doctor Faustus is termed as a ____ play.

A:) devotional

B:) historical

C:) morality

D:) revolutionary

springline's Correct option: C


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82) ‘That time doth run with calm and silent foot’

The above given line is an example of ____

A:) monosyllabic

B:) disyllabic

C:) tetrasyllabic 

D:) polysyllabic

springline's Correct option: A


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83) “Christ cannot thy soul, for he is just:

There’s none but I have interest in the same” which character delivered these lines in the play Doctor Faustus?

A:) Lucifer

B:) Mephistophilis

C:) Belzeebub

D:) Bad Angel

springline's Correct option: A


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84) Which God has the destructive personality just as Faustus and involved in the life of Helen?

A:) Jupiter

B:) Jove

C:) Venus

D:) Hera

springline's Correct option: C


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85) In Doctor Faustus who expects the ground to be perfumed and cover with cloth of arras?

A:) lechery

B:) envy

C:) cove

D:) pride

springline's Correct option: D


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86) Faustus visited Olympus to view the universe in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus. Where is Olympus’ top situated?

A:) Greece

B:) Italy

C:) Europe

D:) Africa

springline's Correct option: A


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87) “Sanctoblorum Periphrasican – nay, I’ll tickle you winter”

What is Sanctoblorum in the above given line of Doctor Faustus?

A:) pun

B:) parody

C:) jargon

D:) prosody

springline's Correct option: C


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88) Pick the humorous blunder for ‘Faustus’ mentioned in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) Faust

B:) Fust

C:) Fabian

D:) Fustian

springline's Correct option: D


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89) What is the work Vintner in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus?

A:) Wine seller

B:) stableman

C:) merchant

D:) steward

springline's Correct option: A


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90) Marlowe refers which mythological character with the below line?

“Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit

His waxen wings did mount above his reach,

And, melting, heavens conspir’d his overthrow;”

A:) Demogorgon

B:) Belzebub

C:) Icarus

D:) Mephistophilis

springline's Correct option: C


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91) “Stipendium peccati mors est: Ha! Stipendium.” choose the appropriate meaning.

A:) may the god favour

B:) the wages of sin is death

C:) repending the sin

D:) comitting sin brings misfortune

springline's Correct option: B


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92) Who is the Arch-regent of spirits in Doctor Fastus?

A:) Mephistophilis

B:) Beelzebub

C:) Lucifer

D:) Demogorgon

springline's Correct option: C


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93) In Rome, Mephistophilis and Faustus disguised themselves as____ 

A:) Faries

B:) Atttendents

C:) Cardinals

D:) Servants

springline's Correct option: C


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94) Who melts the frozen blood of Faustus in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?

A:) Mephistopheles

B:) Lucifer

C:) Bad angel

D:) Beelzebub

springline's Correct option: A


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95) “He surfeit upon cursed necromancy.” What is necromancy?

A:) art of magic

B:) study of black magic

C:) study of dead souls

D:) theology

springline's Correct option: B


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96) Who is skeptical of Faustus power___

A:) Duke of Vanholt

B:) Bruno

C:) Benvolio

D:) Wagner

springline's Correct option: C


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97) In Marlowe's Doctors Faustus, what kind of wife does Faustus wishes for?

A:) Helen/Sheba

B:) Penelope/Sheba

C:) Helen/Clytemnestra

D:) Penelope/Helen

springline's Correct option: B


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98) Who is Mars in the below line?

 “Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;”

A:) God of peace

B:) God of War

C:) God of vine

D:) God of love

springline's Correct option: B


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99) “Bid Oncaymaeon farewell, Galen come:”

What is Oncaymaeon in the above given line?

A:) Verbal jugglery

B:) Gamesmanship

C:) artlessness

D:) verbal candidness

springline's Correct option: A


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100) Choose the appropriate sentence for the statement given below

“Bene disserere est finis logices

Is, to dispute well, logic’s chiefest end?”

A:) A logical argument ends well

B:) To argue well is the end of logic

C:) To argue well one must think logically

D:) Logical thinking leads to great arguments

springline's Correct option: B



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101) Now, it is too late: "And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee, The jaws of hell are open to receive thee" who gives this statement?

A:) The Bad Angel

B:) The Good Angel

C:) an Old Man

D:) Devils

springline's Correct option: B


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102) Faustus is terrified by the sight, but who reminds him gleefully that soon he will feel, rather than just see?

A:) The Good Angel

B:) The Bad Angel

C:) Lucifer

D:) Mephostophilis

springline's Correct option: B


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103) According to the theology the Good Angel may be interpreted as a dramatic representation of Faustus’s better judgment, or it may be a literal character for Faustus as  

A:) advocate

B:) guardian angel

C:) fairy godmother

D:) guardian spirit

springline's Correct option: B


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104) Who translated the ancient works including the first book of Pharsalia, a Roman epic by Lucan about Caesar facing Pompey the Great in battle?

A:) Marlowe

B:) Jonson

C:) Campbell

D:) Shakespeare

springline's Correct option: A


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105) Who translated the Ovid’s book of love poetry, Amores written in elegiac couplets?

A:) Sidney

B:) Shelley

C:) Marlowe

D:) Lytton

springline's Correct option: C


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106)  Marlowe’s death was not natural and it was believed that he was stabbed by one of his opponent while arguing about money in a boarding house. Who was he? 

A:) John Cleese

B:) Simon Pegg

C:) Ingram Frizer

D:) Russell Williams

springline's Correct option: C


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107) The Elizabethan poet and playwright Marlowe was the main author of the poems and plays which Shakespeare attributed in his life time; to show his appreciation on Marlow, Shakespeare eulogized him in one of his works named

A:) The Tempest

B:) Midsummer Night’s Dream

C:) Antony and Cleopatra

D:) As You like It

springline's Correct option: D


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108) Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay borrows its title from Marlowe’s history play

A:) Richard II

B:) Tamburlaine, the Great

C:) Edward II

D:) Jew of Malta

springline's Correct option: C


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109) Colin Dexter’s novel The Wench Is Dead took its title from the phrase uttered in

A:) Jew of Malta

B:) Hero and Leander

C:) Edward II

D:) Tamburlaine, the Great

springline's Correct option: A


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110) Who in the play steals Faustus’s magic book to attain pleasure?

A:) Wagner

B:) Valdes

C:) Cornelius

D:) The Clown

springline's Correct option: D


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111) Whom in the play is an innkeeper selling wine and Mephostophilis helps him in receiving back his silver cup?

A:) The Cater

B:) The Horse-man

C:) The Vintner

D:) The Hostess

springline's Correct option: C


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112) Who in the play acts as a narrator appearing only at the beginning and end of the play?

A:) an Old Man

B:) Chorus

C:) Good Angel

D:) Bad Angel

springline's Correct option: B


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113) Whose life is compared with Faustus’s quest in learning black arts, for who he escaped from an island tower with the help of artificial wings crafted by his father Daedalus, ignored his father's warning not to fly too close to the sun and melted his wings?

A:) Icarus

B:) Salvoder

C:) Tercimanus

D:) Mandenus

springline's Correct option: A


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114) Whose mockery of scholarly language in the play is in prose which is opposite to blank verse?

A:) The Carter

B:) Devils

C:) Wagner

D:) The Scholars

springline's Correct option: C


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115) Which of the streams was not acquired by Faustus before his study into black arts?

A:) logic

B:) law

C:) economics

D:) medicine

springline's Correct option: C


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116) When Faustus asks Mephostophilis to change his ugly attire, he departs and in turn comes back in the guise of a …………..

A:) woman

B:) queen

C:) angel

D:) friar

springline's Correct option: D


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117) When Faustus bids Mephostophilis to tell Lucifer that he is ready to sell his soul, in exchange, how many years did Faustus declared to have his power ?

A:) twenty two years

B:) twenty four years

C:) twenty four years and a day

D:) twenty four days and a night

springline's Correct option: B


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118) Name the two devils in the play who were shaped by Wagner to terrify the Clown for his disobedience in serving him.

A:) Buer and Botis

B:) Beleth and Belial

C:) Baliol and Belcher

D:) Barbatos and Baliol

springline's Correct option: C


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119) Given below the statements one is incorrect according to Faustus’s agreement with Lucifer. What it is?

A:) after twenty-four years, the devils will have his soul.

B:) Mephostophilis should be his servant and at his commandment

C:) asks for knowledge: he demands books on all manner of incantations, literature, and botany

D:) demands that Mephostophilis bring him a wife.

springline's Correct option: C


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120) Which question by Faustus made Mephostophilis to flee? 

A:) who made Lucifer?

B:) who made the world ?

C:) who is the king of the world?

D:) why is Lucifer in Hell?

springline's Correct option: B


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121) Who in the play carted Faustus to the top of Mount Olympus in a chariot?

A:) turtle

B:) eagle

C:) dragon

D:) horse

springline's Correct option: C


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122) Whom did Faustus and Mephostophilis followed and magically put them to sleep to save Burno from the Pope’s court?

A:) the servants

B:) the bishops

C:) the cardinals

D:) the nuns

springline's Correct option: C


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123) In the play who are called the Synod?

A:) council of Bishops

B:) council of Kings

C:) council of friars

D:) council of cardinals

springline's Correct option: A


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124) As the Pope was sitting for his meal what was not done by Faustus?

A:) blasphemies

B:) starts to hit the Pope

C:) snatches the Pope's food and wine 

D:) dances at the dining table with nuns

springline's Correct option: D


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125) When Faustus and Mephostophilis started their antics in the Pope’s court who assumed that the villain might be a ghost from Purgatory?

A:) Pope

B:) a Servant

C:) a Bishop

D:) a Nun

springline's Correct option: C


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126) In the play who works as an ostler ?

A:) the Clown

B:) the Carter

C:) the Vintner

D:) the Hostess

springline's Correct option: A


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127) When Robin and Rafe disturbs the exhausted Mephostophilis who have been summoned all the way from Constantinople, he chides them by turning one into an ape and the other into a …….

A:) swine

B:) pig

C:) dog

D:) monkey

springline's Correct option: C


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128) When the German Emperor was happy about Bruno’s return he hosts a show for Faustus. Who refuses to join Faustus and watches the show from the window?

A:) Benvolio

B:) Ferdinand

C:) Darius

D:) Martino

springline's Correct option: A


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129) Benvolio voices Faustus’s skepticism and asks to conjure spirits. Among the following one spirit conjured by Faustus is incorrect. Find it.

A:) Alexander the Great

B:) Persian Emperor Darius

C:) Alexander's paramour

D:) Duke of Vanholt

springline's Correct option: D


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130) When Faustus’s revenge work on Martino and Frederick they find each other in woods with ……………

A:) tangled hair with birds inside them

B:) hands with boils

C:) horns on their heads

D:) tails on their back

springline's Correct option: C


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131) When the Horse-courser return wet to Faustus because he rode his horse into water, he says the horse was turned into

A:) stubble

B:) husk

C:) straw

D:) strew

springline's Correct option: C


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132) When the Horse-courser tugs at Faustus’s leg Faustus screams and Mephostophilis threatens to take the man to the constable for which the Horse-courser promises Mephostophilis  that he'll pay ………………..  

A:) twenty dollars

B:) ten dollars

C:) forty dollars

D:) sixty dollars

springline's Correct option: C


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133) Who in the play asks for ripe grapes in the month of January where it was another chance for Faustus to prove his magic?

A:) Persian Emperor

B:) Duchess of Vanholt

C:) Duke of Vanholt

D:) Persian Emperess

springline's Correct option: B


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134) Faustus begins his final monologue when the clock strikes ……..

A:) nine

B:) eleven

C:) twelve

D:) ten

springline's Correct option: B


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135)Faustus pleads that God will shorten his time in hell to a

A:) hundred thousand years

B:) one thousand years

C:) thousand years

D:) both a and b

springline's Correct option: A


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136) Whose theory of transmigration of souls (reincarnation) was believed by Faustus in his final stage?  

A:) Themistoclea theory

B:) Aristotle’s theory

C:) Pythagoras' theory

D:) Plato’s theory

springline's Correct option: C


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137) Who in the play warns the audience to remember the fall of Faustus and the lessons it offers?

A:) Good Angel

B:) Chorus

C:) Old man

D:) Wagner

springline's Correct option: B


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138) The translation into English known as The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus was known only with initials

A:) P.E

B:) F.F

C:) C.F

D:) P.F

springline's Correct option: D


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139)The clock striking eleven in the play denotes the parable told by Jesus in …………… of the Gospel of Matthew.

A:) Chapter 20

B:) Chapter 21

C:) Chapter 22

D:) Chapter 23

springline's Correct option: A


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140) The play ends with a/an ……….

A:) epitaph

B:) epilogue

C:) epitasis

D:) epitome

springline's Correct option: B


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141) Whom in the play is referred as "waxen wings did mount above his reach"?

A:) Beelzebub

B:) Lucifer

C:) Faustus

D:) Mephostophilis

springline's Correct option: C


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142) Who calls Faustus “the young man is brilliant, but that brilliance has made him impatient with human learning, and now he has moved on to magic”?

A:) Cornelius

B:) Chorus

C:) Wagner

D:) The Scholars

springline's Correct option: B


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143) When Faustus questions on heaven and hell, who says "strike a terror to my fainting soul" ?

A:) Devils

B:) Mephostophilis

C:) Lucifer

D:) Bad Angel

springline's Correct option: B


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144) When Faustus sign the contract the blood from his hands congealed to make a good ink. What was used by Mephostophilis to liquefy the congealed blood and to deal the contract?

A:) fire

B:) candle light

C:) sun beam

D:) water

springline's Correct option: A


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145) When did Lucifer solicit the seven deadly sins to delight Faustus?

A:) when Faustus calls out to Christ to help him

B:) when Faustus subject on Christ

C:) when Faustus question on Lucifer

D:) when Faustus ask why Mephostophilis and other devils are in hell

springline's Correct option: A


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146) Name the English actor and singer who portrayed Marlowe in his Shakespeare in Love?

A:) Eleanor Tomilnson

B:) Karen Collins

C:) Emilia Clarke

D:) Rupert Everett

springline's Correct option: D


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147) In Greek mythology mountains were the abode for the gods. One such mountain mentioned in the play represents the summit of Faustus. What is the name of the mountain?

A:) Mount Mian

B:) Mount Olympus

C:) Mount Pedenus

D:) Mount Prentelicus

springline's Correct option: B


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148) Who enters for the second time in the play to advice Faustus’s repentance but finds him speaking of his love with Helen of Troy and  himself playing Paris of Troy?

A:) his scholars

B:) Good Angel

C:) an Old Man

D:) Cornelius

springline's Correct option: C


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149) Marlowe sets up an evil parallel of the Christian trinity in relation with Mephostophilis, Beelzebub and   ……………………

A:) all the devils

B:) Lucifer

C:) Bad Angel

D:) Seven Deadly Sins

springline's Correct option: B


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150) Identify the spirit who confers the message for Faustus as "Fools that will laugh on earth, must weep in hell" and was blamed for his damnation? 

A:) Bad Angel

B:) Beelzebub

C:) Lucifer

D:) Mephostophilis

springline's Correct option: D

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151) Faustus’s revenge on Benvolio’s friends Martino and Frederick makes to find each other in the

A:) woods

B:) ocean

C:) mountain

D:) dungeon

springline's Correct option: A