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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the assembled inmates do in Scene 3?
(a) Sit quietly.
(b) Dance.
(c) Assume a pose.
(d) Beat the floor.

2. How does Sade characterize the process by which Revolutionaries dole out death sentences?
(a) Mathematical.
(b) Orgiastic.
(c) Soporific.
(d) Haphazard.

3. What historical figure did Damiens try to assassinate?
(a) Robespierre.
(b) Louis XV.
(c) Cardinal Richaelieu.
(d) Danton.

4. What part of Corday's body does the Salesman admire in the dagger-purchasing mime?
(a) Her buttocks.
(b) Her bosom.
(c) Her neck.
(d) Her hair.

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

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

7. Which character's name does the Chorus chant in unison during Scene 7?
(a) Corday.
(b) Marat.
(c) Roux.
(d) Sade.

8. According to the Herald at the end of Scene 4, what is the audience about to watch Marat do?
(a) Bleed.
(b) Speak.
(c) Give up.
(d) Fight.

9. Who accompanies Marat at his static position at the beginning of the play?
(a) Corday.
(b) Sade.
(c) Simone.
(d) Dupperret.

10. According to Marat, what does one see everywhere one looks in 1793?
(a) Squalor.
(b) His portrait.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Corruption.

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

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

13. Which of the following characters is not one of the Singers?
(a) Kokol.
(b) Rossignol.
(c) Polpoch.
(d) Roux.

14. What abstract purveyor of death does Sade say he hates in Scene 12?
(a) The Revolution.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Life.

15. Who does Coulmier thank at the beginning of his speech in Scene 2?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) The audience.
(c) God.
(d) Sade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

2. What Holocaust term does Sade use in describing mankind's inclination to kill in Scene 12?

3. Which character's name does the Heral mention appearing on Marat's black list in Scene 4?

4. The song in Scene 10 details Corday's arrival in what town?

5. What does Coulmier protest he must be when he interrupts the play?

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