Deck 2: Characters and Plot in Othello and Doctor Faustus

Question 1

How does Othello kill Desdemona?

A)He stabs her
B)He smothers her
C)He strangles her
D)He beats her to death

Answer 1

He smothers her

Question 2

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

A)The Chorus
B)Faustus
C)Mephastophilis
D)Wagner

Answer 2

The Chorus

Question 3

To which Greek mythological character in Faustus compared in Prologue?

A)Hercules
B)Perseus
C)Icarus
D)Theseus

Answer 3

Icarus

Question 4

What field of learning does Faustus consider before he turns to magic?

A)Chemistry,bilogy and physucs
B)Logic,medicine,law and theology
C)Navigation,astronomy,rhetoric and theology
D)Grammar,history,science and latin

Question 5

which character intruct Faustus in the dark arts?

A)The Scholar
B)Wagner snd Robin
C)The Good and Bad Angels
D)Cornelius and Valdes

Question 6

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

A)Satan
B)Mephastophilis
C)Lucifer
D)Belzebub

Question 7

How long does Faustus demand that Mephastophilis serve him?

A)30 years
B)24 years
C)1 hour
D)1 century

Question 8

What does Faustus offer in return for his service?

A)All his riches
B)The life of his first-born child
C)Nothing
D)His Soul

Question 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

Question 10

Which City does Faustus visit extensively in scene 7?

A)Amsterdam
B)Berlin
C)Rome
D)Jerusalem

Question 11

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

A)Helen of Troy
B)Jesus Christ
C)Joan of Arc
D)Alexender the Great

Question 12

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

Question 13

What does Faustus fetch for the Duchess of Vanholt?

A)A male slave
B)A griffin
C)A dish of grapes
D)A hourse

Question 14

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

Question 15

What Famous beauty does Mephastophilis present to Faustus in scene 12?

A)Joan of Arc
B)Elwanor of Aquitaine
C)Catherine the Great
D)Helen of Troy

Question 16

What happens to Faustus at the end of the play?

A)He repents and is saved
B)He kills himself
C)He becomes emperor og Germany
D)He is carried off to Hell

Question 17

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

Question 18

Which trick does Faustus, while invisible, pay 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 bamquet

Question 19

What does Mephastophilis refuse to tell Faustus?

A)If Faustus will demned
B)How many Planets there are
C)Where hell is located?
D)Who made the world

Question 20

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

Question 21

For how many years has Agamemnon been at war in Troy?

A)Five
B)Ten
C)Seven
D)One

Question 22

What kind of signal does the Watchman see in the First scene?

A)A bird
B)A blazing fire
C)A messenger
D)Smoke Signal

Question 23

How did Claudius murder king Hamlet?

A)By Stabbing him through an arras
B)By Pouring poison into his ear
C)By ordering him to be hanged
D)By Poisoning his wineglass

Question 24

Whos Skull does Hamlet discover in the Churchyard?

A)The former court jester's
B)Raynaldo's
C)Ophelia's
D)His father's

Question 25

How does Ophelia die?

A)Claudius stabs her
B)Hamlet strangles her
C)She slits her wrists
D)She drowns in the river