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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) Speak.
(c) Give up.
(d) Bleed.

2. According to Corday's song in Scene 7, to what does Marat's way lead?
(a) Mountains of dead.
(b) Rivers of blood.
(c) Sewers and refuse.
(d) Eternal slavery.

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

4. 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 are ordered to do.
(c) What others have done before us.
(d) What we want to do.

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

6. Coulmier protests in Scene 11 that he brought in the public to show that his patients are not what?
(a) Maniacs.
(b) Subversives.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Lepers.

7. Which world does Roux utter in Scene 4 before being shushed by Coulmier?
(a) Curse.
(b) Never.
(c) Death.
(d) Liberty.

8. In Scene 14, which prayer does a patient recite in a perverse form?
(a) Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
(b) The Apostles Creed.
(c) Our Father.
(d) Hail Mary.

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

10. According to Sade at the end of Scene 11, from what does the guillotine deliver its victims?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Penury.
(d) Humiliation.

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

12. What object is Marat staring at as he writes at the beginning of Scene 7?
(a) His bath.
(b) A portrait of Rousseau.
(c) A knife.
(d) A map.

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

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

15. What actions are the Male Nurses performing at the top of the play?
(a) Playing cards and drinking wine.
(b) Bathing and massages.
(c) Chaining patients.
(d) Applying bandages and giving medication.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the follow is not something the singers of Scene 5 suggest be done to the ruling class of 1793?

2. What abstract purveyor of death does Sade say he hates in Scene 12?

3. According to the Herald at the beginning of Scene 7, to what voice is Marat listening as he writes?

4. What action is Simone performing at the beginning of Scene 3?

5. In what year is The Marat/Sade set?

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