A.) He was of noble birth. --- Faustus was not born into nobility.
Kansas was called "bleeding Kansas' because when the territory was formed, the state got to choose whether it would be a "slave state" or a "free state", and so the people on both sides went around killing each other. The most famous person of this period was John brown, who violently killed at least 12 people because they supported Kansas becoming a slave state.
The people were quite angry at the tzar for bringing them into the war, as well as the war was making food shortages more common, people did not like the decisions the tzar was making and needed some way out, in this case it was communism, which worked for awhile to stabilize he country.
The disadvantages of the Virginia Plan is that they had a very strong executive branch, this made the people fear that the president would manipulate his powers.