Act One, Scene One

Question 1

Faustus: third person

Answer 1

“Faustus”

Question 2

Faustus: “Both law and physic

Answer 2

are for petty wits, divinity is the basest of the three”…“Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish’d me.”

Question 3

Faustus: “metaphysics

Answer 3

of magicians”

Question 4

Faustus: “When all is done,

Answer 4

divinity is best.”

Question 5

Faustus: first rejection of religion

Answer 5

“Divinity, adieu!”

Question 6

Faustus: “belike, we must sin,

Answer 6

and so consequently die”

Question 7

Faustus: “Ay,

Answer 7

we must die an everlasting death.”

Question 8

Faustus: “I’ll have them fly

Answer 8

to India for gold”

Question 9

Faustus: “tell the secrets

Answer 9

of foreign kings”

Question 10

Faustus: “reign sole king

Answer 10

of all our provinces”

Question 11

Good Angel: “lay that

Answer 11

damned book aside”

Question 12

Good Angel: “that is

Answer 12

blasphemy”

Question 13

Bad Angel: “Be thou

Answer 13

on Earth as Jove is in the sky”

Question 14

Valdes: “shall make all

Answer 14

nations to canonize us”

Question 15

Valdes: “these books,

Answer 15

thy wit and our experience”

Question 16

What happens in this scene?

Answer 16

Faustus gives a long soliloquy, reflecting upon his academic knowledge and considering what to specialise in. He considers logic, medicine, law and religion, before deciding upon magic as it will allow him to become a “deity”. Good Angel vs. Bad Angel argument but he remains resolute.