The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus This activity will help you meet these educational goals:
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text; cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each question, and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a
brief evaluation of your work.
Activity
In this activity you will answer questions related to the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
Part A
Write a brief description of each character in the table.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Which tragic element creates pity and fear in the audience? the triumph of the antagonist the spectacle created by the playwright the downfall of the protagonist the inclusion of the chorus

From letter to viceroy, lord irwin: identify gandhi's central claim in this letter. what key reasons does he provide to support his claim?