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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Scene 6, Jacques Roux protests that the ruling class controls all of the following except which?
(a) The granaries.
(b) The estates.
(c) The markets.
(d) The military camps.

3. What is the color of the dagger's handle in Scene 10?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

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

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

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

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

9. As the chorus sings about the Revolution, what body part do they say is bleeding?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Hands.
(c) Feet.
(d) Heart.

10. From what French town does Corday reside?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cannes.
(c) Caen.
(d) Burgundy.

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

12. In Scene 11, Marat accuses aristocrats of make secret deals with whom?
(a) Foreign armies.
(b) The reactionary bourgeoisie.
(c) The deposed royal family.
(d) The Catholic Church.

13. With what adjective does Coulmier describe the keepers of the asylum in Scene 2?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Vigilent.
(d) Reverent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade at the end of Scene 11, from what does the guillotine deliver its victims?

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

3. Which of the following characters does not have a line in the Homage to Marat?

4. At the beginning of the song in Scene 10, what emotion has nearly defeated Corday?

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

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