Dr. faustus question and answer
UNIT- 1 : Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
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
Ans. B.Olymphus
2) Fill the blank with appropriate word
“Be a _____, Faustus; heap up gold,”
A:) physician
B:) theologist
C:) justinian
D:) mathematician
Ans Physician.
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
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: A
8) Who is personified as a second edition of king Midas in Doctor Faustus?
A:) Lechery
B:) Envy
C:) Wrath
D:) Covetousness
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: D
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
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: D
14) Whose book contains the secretes of astronomy in Faustus?
A:) June
B:) Jove
C:) Jupiter
D:) Mars
Correct option: B
15) Which devil did Faustus summons to fulfil his wish?
A:) Lucifer
B:) Beelzebub
C:) Bablio
D:) Mephistophilis
Correct option: D
16) What did Faustus uses in exchange for 24 voluptuous years?
A:) his soul
B:) life on earth
C:) intelligence
D:) knowledge
Correct option: A
17) How many times did angel appeared to faustus throughout the play?
A:) five times
B:) four times
C:) three times
D:) two times
Correct option: B
18) Under whose request Faustus brought Helen of Troy?
A:) Wagner
B:) Scholars
C:) Robin
D:) Knight
Correct option: B
19) Who insist Faustus that hell is real?
A:) Lucifer
B:) Satan
C:) Mephistophilis
D:) Beelzebub
Correct option: C
20) Faustus is dissatisfied with traditional form of ____
A:) magic
B:) cookery
C:) travel
D:) knowledge
Correct option: D
21) In which year Marlowe got killed in tavern brawl?
A:) 1590
B:) 1589
C:) 1595
D:) 1593
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
26) Find the odd one among the Trojan characters involved in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus.
A:) Achilles
B:) Menelaus
C:) Agamemnon
D:) Helen
Correct option: C
27) Who is ready to sell his soul for a shoulder of mutton?
A:) Clown
B:) Robin
C:) Wagner
D:) Valdes
Correct option: A
28) What is Elysium mentioned in Act I scene III in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?
A:) Hell
B:) Heaven
C:) Earth
D:) Olympus
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
30) What is the term used for calling the black spirit in lexical format?
A:) incantation
B:) chronographia
C:) necromancy
D:) conjuration
Correct option: B
31) How many plays Marlowe produced before his death?
A:) eight
B:) seven
C:) six
D:) five
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: A
36) What is the name of the knight who is skeptical about Faustus’s power?
A:) Balliol
B:) Benvolio
C:) Ostler
D:) Charles
Correct option: B
37) Pick the river that is not mentioned by Faustus in the play Doctor Faustus.
A:) Styx
B:) Acheson
C:) Phlegethon
D:) Lathe
Correct option: D
38) Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent and to ask the help from god?
A:) scholars
B:) wagner
C:) old man
D:) frair
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: B
40) Doctor Faustus belongs to which university _____
A:) Witernberg
B:) Oxford
C:) Paris
D:) Cambridge
Correct option: A
41) The wise women Sheba mentioned by Faustus belongs to which country?
A:) Arabia
B:) Greek
C:) Europe
D:) Italy
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
43) Who agrees to become Wagner’s servant in Doctor Faustus?
A:) the Clown
B:) Beelzebub
C:) Ralph
D:) Robin
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: C
45) The tragical play Doctor Faustus begins with ____
A:) Prologue
B:) Chorus
C:) monologue
D:) conversation
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: C
50) In Faustus who desired for ripe grape in the month of January?
A:) Duke
B:) Duchess
C:) knight
D:) Emperor
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: C
52) What does First Scholar mean by paragon in Marlowe's Doctors Faustus?
A:) fair
B:) unequalled beauty
C:) strange beauty
D:) dashing beauty
Correct option: B
53) How many times was Helen awaken by Mephistophilis in Doctor Faustus?
A:) 2
B:) 3
C:) 4
D:) none of the above
Correct option: A
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!
Correct option: D
55) On whose command did Faustus brought Alexander the Great and his paramour?
A:) Duke
B:) Emperor
C:) Duchess
D:) scholar
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: C
63) Faustus traded his soul for how many years of uninterrupted voluptuous enjoyment?
A:) 27
B:) 25
C:) 24
D:) 22
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: B
67) What kind of tags did Marlowe sprinkled in his work Doctor Faustus?
A:) Greek
B:) French
C:) Spanish
D:) Latin
Correct option: C
68) Who doubts the power of Faustus in the Emperor’s Palace at Innsbruck?
A:) Knight
B:) Attendent
C:) Duke
D:) Wagner
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: C
71) For how many dollars/ pound did Faustus sold his hay horse?
A:) 40 dollars
B:) 40 pounds
C:) 45 dollars
D:) 45 pounds
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: A
73) Marlowe through Doctor Faustus gives an old ____ a glowing Renaissance setting.
A:) mesolitic legend
B:) paleolithic legend
C:) neolithic tale
D:) medieval legend
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: D
78) As a magician, Faustus hopes to become equal to the magician ____
A:) Agrippa
B:) Cornelis
C:) Roldes
D:) Lucifer
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: B
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
Correct option: C
81) Doctor Faustus is termed as a ____ play.
A:) devotional
B:) historical
C:) morality
D:) revolutionary
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: A
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
Correct option: C
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
Correct option: D
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
Correct option: A
