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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Coulmier protest he must be when he interrupts the play?
(a) The de facto director.
(b) The voice of reason.
(c) The representative of the state.
(d) The calming hand.

2. At the beginning of the song in Scene 10, what emotion has nearly defeated Corday?
(a) Lovesickness.
(b) Depression.
(c) Terror.
(d) Weariness.

3. Which character's name does the Heral mention appearing on Marat's black list in Scene 4?
(a) Coulmier.
(b) Roux.
(c) Dupperet.
(d) Simone.

4. Which what is Marat's tub filling in Scene 8?
(a) Filth.
(b) Blood.
(c) Pages.
(d) Ink.

5. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?
(a) 13.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

6. With what term does Sade describe the execution of Damiens?
(a) A ritual.
(b) A festival.
(c) A horrorshow.
(d) An exorcism.

7. What Holocaust term does Sade use in describing mankind's inclination to kill in Scene 12?
(a) Final solution.
(b) Ghetto.
(c) Concentration camp.
(d) Master race.

8. In Scene 10, what do the Singers mention is clogging the sewers?
(a) Rancid meat.
(b) Feces.
(c) Flood water.
(d) Blood.

9. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Politician.
(c) Priest.
(d) Baker.

10. Which of the following is not an example Coulmier offers of the Church assisting the poor?
(a) Free housing.
(b) Clothing drives.
(c) Medical aid.
(d) Soup kitchens.

11. What famous French text does Coulmier invoke in his Scene 2 speech?
(a) The Constitution of 1793.
(b) Democracy in America.
(c) The Declaration of Pilnitz.
(d) The Declaration of Human Rights.

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

13. To what does Sade compare Marat's bath in Scene 15?
(a) A dungeon.
(b) A womb.
(c) Hell.
(d) The ocean.

14. What are the children fighting over in the streets, according to Corday?
(a) Human heads.
(b) Toy guillotines.
(c) Coins.
(d) Old wigs.

15. To what building does Corday compare Paris in Scene 10?
(a) A slaughterhouse.
(b) A public bath.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) An outhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what affliction is Marat always submerged in a bath?

2. Who is attending Corday in the first scene of the play?

3. What disease's effects are the wigs described in Scene 10 intended to conceal?

4. At the end of Scene 5, the Herald announces that unrest has been replace by what?

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

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