Act V

Question 1

act 5, scene 1

Answer 1

old man tries to encourage Faustus to repent, which he rejects. Faustus takes Helen of Troy as his paramour

Question 2

what is the purpose of the old man in 5,1?

Answer 2

final chance for repentance and salvation

Question 3

‘break heart, drop ______’ 5,1?

Answer 3

blood

Question 4

‘whose ______ alone must wash away thy guilt’ 5,1

Answer 4

blood

Question 5

‘________ and die’ 5,1

Answer 5

despair

Question 6

‘I see an _____ hovers o’er thy head’ 5,1

Answer 6

angel

Question 7

‘ill in piecemeal tear thy _____’ 5,1

Answer 7

flesh

Question 8

‘and with my ____ again, I will confirm my former vow to Lucifer’ 51,

Answer 8

blood

Question 9

‘his faith is great. I _______ touch his soul’ 5,1

Answer 9

cannot

Question 10

‘her lips suck forth my ____’ 5,1

Answer 10

soul

Question 11

‘as in this ______ God shall try my faith’ 5,1

Answer 11

furnace

Question 12

act 5 scene 2 summary

Answer 12

Faustus final hour has come.

Question 13

quotes to show devils are physically preventing Faustus from repenting 5,2

Answer 13

• ‘I would weep but the devils draw in my tears’
• ‘he stays my tongue’
• ‘the devil threatened to tear me to pieces if I named God’

Question 14

‘make _________ day’ 5,2

Answer 14

perpetual

Question 15

‘stand still, you ever moving _____ of heaven’ 5,2

Answer 15

spheres

Question 16

‘mountains and hills, come and ____ on me’ 5,2

Answer 16

fall

Question 17

‘hide me from the heavy ______ of god’ 5,2

Answer 17

wrath

Question 18

what other scene does 5,2 mirror and how?

Answer 18

• Faustus in alone in his study
• speaking in soliloquy

Question 19

what is the significance of the shortening length between the clock striking 11, 11;30, and 12?

Answer 19

highlights how Faustus’ fate is inescapable and how he gets more and more desperate to prevent it.

Question 20

‘curse be the parents that ________ me’ 5,2

Answer 20

engendered

Question 21

‘curse ______’ 5,2

Answer 21

curse Lucifer

Question 22

‘that hath ________ thee of the joys of heaven’ 5,2

Answer 22

deprived

Question 23

‘my god look not so ______ on me’ 5,2

Answer 23

fierce

Question 24

what is the last line of the play?

Answer 24

‘ill burn my books. ah mephistopheles!’