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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who stops Corday from prematurely murdering Marat in Scene 9?
(a) Simone.
(b) Sade.
(c) A sister.
(d) Coulmier.

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

4. 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.

5. Which woman in the cast serves as Marat's nurse?
(a) Simone.
(b) Corday.
(c) Coulmier's Wife.
(d) Rossignol.

6. What aspect of Charlotte Corday does the Herald apologize to the audience for mentioning?
(a) Her attractiveness.
(b) Her madness.
(c) Her moral laxness.
(d) Her wealth.

7. In Scene 13, what role did the kings hold to the people?
(a) Fathers.
(b) Messiahs.
(c) Livelihoods.
(d) Servants.

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

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

10. What device's "singing" is Corday said to have hears in Scene 10?
(a) The pipe organ.
(b) The printing press.
(c) The tumbrel.
(d) The guillotine.

11. Which of the following is not a term hurled at the poor when a shop is looted?
(a) Beggars.
(b) Villains.
(c) Charlatans.
(d) Gutter rats.

12. In what year is The Marat/Sade set?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1793.

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

14. What apologia does Coulmier make in his Scene 2 speech?
(a) The space smells of antiseptic.
(b) The actors have never performed before.
(c) The play is poorly written.
(d) The hour is late.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sade characterize the process by which Revolutionaries dole out death sentences?

2. According to the Herald, what do Marat and Simone share in addition to a vision of France?

3. In what French town is the play's asylum located?

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

5. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?

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