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Test:AP English Literature
Adapted from Act 1, Scene 1, ln. 78-119 ofThe Tragical History of Dr. Faustusby Christopher Marlowe (1604) in Vol. XIX, Part 2 ofThe Harvard Classics(1909-1914)
FAUST: How am I glutted with conceit of this!
Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,
Resolve me of all ambiguities,
Perform what desperate enterprise I will?
I’ll have them fly to India for gold,
Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,
And search all corners of the new-found world
For pleasant fruits and princely delicates;
I’ll have them read me strange philosophy
And tell the secrets of all foreign kings;
I’ll have them wall all Germany with brass,
And make swift Rhine circle fair Wittenberg;
I’ll have them fill the public schools with silk,
Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad;
I’ll levy soldiers with the coin they bring,
And chase the Prince of Parma from our land,
And reign sole king of all the provinces;
Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war
Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp’s bridge,
I’ll make my servile spirits to invent.
[Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS]
Come, German Valdes and Cornelius,
And make me blest with your sage conference.
巴尔德斯、甜巴尔德斯和Cornelius,
Know that your words have won me at the last
To practice magic and concealed arts:
Yet not your words only, but mine own fantasy
That will receive no object, for my head
But ruminates on necromantic skill.
Philosophy is odious and obscure,
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile:
’Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish’d me.
Then, gentle friends, aid me in this attempt;
And I that have with concise syllogisms
Gravell’d the pastors of the German church,
And made the flowering pride of Wittenberg
Swarm to my problems, as the infernal spirits
On sweet Musaeigus, when he came to hell,
Will be as cunning as Agrippa was,
Whose shadows made all Europe honor him.
| 1. | Which of the following is NOT a reasonable inference to draw about Faustus' feelings on his situation? |
He must choose between earthly academic pursuits and the dark arts, and he feels ambivalent about the decision.
He must choose between earthly academic pursuits and the dark arts, and he finds the new path of magic exciting.
He has been offered the use of dark arts, and he is excited by the power this opportunity could afford him.
He has had a long and successful academic career, but feels that he has reached the limit of earthly, academic pursuits.
He has had a long and successful academic career which has led him to feel superior to and bored with those around him.
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