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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Corday tell Simone that Marat's enemies are gathering in Scene 9?
(a) Somme.
(b) Versailles.
(c) Caen.
(d) Bordeaux.

2. In what French town is the play's asylum located?
(a) Charenton.
(b) Lille.
(c) Caen.
(d) Bergerac.

3. In Marat's Liturgy, which of the following is not a group that he accuses of lying to the poor?
(a) Poets.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Kings.
(d) Priests.

4. What part of the new ruling class's body is enormous, according to Kokol?
(a) Their arses.
(b) Their genitals.
(c) Their stomachs.
(d) Their heads.

5. What is Coulmier's official position?
(a) Ambassador from the Emperor.
(b) Director of the Asylum.
(c) Monsignor.
(d) Magistrate.

6. Which two animals do the singers invoke to describe Marat in Scene 5?
(a) Wolf and asp.
(b) Otter and hound.
(c) Eagle and wren.
(d) Cow and bear.

7. What two omnipresent groups represent the asylum security throughout the play?
(a) Sisters and Doctors.
(b) Male Nurses and Doctors.
(c) Sisters and Male Nurses.
(d) Sisters and Priests.

8. Marat never moves from a certain location. What is that location?
(a) A bench.
(b) A chair.
(c) A cage.
(d) A bath.

9. Who anxiously follows behind Marat while the patients carry him on their shoulders in Scene 5?
(a) Corday.
(b) Sade.
(c) Coulmier.
(d) Simone.

10. What is the "lurid star" under which the Herald says Sade came to the asylum?
(a) Passion.
(b) Resistence.
(c) Notoriety.
(d) Madness.

11. What character enters in the first scene at Sade beckon?
(a) Coulmier.
(b) Corday.
(c) Herald.
(d) Marat.

12. In what way does Coulmier protest Sade must present his play?
(a) Livelier.
(b) More decent.
(c) More positive.
(d) Subtler.

13. What was the former profession of the interrupting patient in Scene 14?
(a) A diplomat.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) An abbot.
(d) A military attache.

14. According to Sade at the beginning of Scene 15, what we do is the shadow of what?
(a) What we should do.
(b) What we want to do.
(c) What we are ordered to do.
(d) What others have done before us.

15. According to the Herald, what do Marat and Simone share in addition to a vision of France?
(a) A bed.
(b) The same parents.
(c) A faith in God.
(d) Simone's money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Marat at his static position at the beginning of the play?

2. Which what is Marat's tub filling in Scene 8?

3. What are the children fighting over in the streets, according to Corday?

4. What part of Corday's body does the Salesman admire in the dagger-purchasing mime?

5. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

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