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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Singers say they will impart the words they cannot speak freely?
(a) Keep them to themselves.
(b) Breathe them in our ear.
(c) Shout them from the rafters.
(d) Carve them into our skin.

2. In Duperret's Scene 22 song, who is the only entity that man will be expected to obey in an ideal world?
(a) Himself.
(b) The market.
(c) The king.
(d) God.

3. What color is Corday's hair?
(a) Grey.
(b) Auburn.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Black.

4. In Scene 30, how does Corday respond to Duperret's entreaty to leave Paris?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She kicks him.
(c) She kisses him goodbye.
(d) She calls the police to her assistance.

5. Who is in charge of France at the end of the Interruptus narrative?
(a) Robespierre.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Danton.
(d) Louis XV.

6. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?
(a) Kings.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Generals.

7. How many years does the Interruptus cover?
(a) 4.
(b) 15.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

8. Which character does not sing at all during the play?
(a) Marat.
(b) Duperret.
(c) Corday.
(d) Cucurucu.

9. Who separates Duperrat and Corday when the former begins to molest the latter?
(a) Sade.
(b) A male nurse.
(c) A sister.
(d) Herald.

10. What affliction of Marat does the Schoolmaster mock in Scene 26?
(a) A skin disease.
(b) A stutter.
(c) A lisp.
(d) A chronic fever.

11. Which of the following vocations is not mentioned among Sage's eight fictional artisans in Scene 24?
(a) A cook.
(b) A masseuse.
(c) A wine-maker.
(d) A cobbler.

12. Why do the people love Marat, according to Sade in the beginning of Scene 20?
(a) He will die for them.
(b) He will suffer for them.
(c) He will fight for them.
(d) He will speak for them.

13. Which of the following words is not chanted by the inmates at the end of the play?
(a) Nation.
(b) Declaration.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Copulation.

14. What institution's sacking does Sade recall witnessing in this section?
(a) A library.
(b) A manor.
(c) A convent.
(d) An art museum.

15. In the Singers' Scene 21 song, what has just been destroyed?
(a) Corday's carriage.
(b) Marat's front door.
(c) The central guillotine scaffold.
(d) Marat's printing press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marat demand be done with the seized farmland?

2. In Scene 30, of what does Sade say the world consists?

3. In Scene 18, for what group does Marat say the Revolution was fought?

4. According to Marat, why is the rumor being spread that wages will soon be raised?

5. Which of the following items is not something Marat blindly seeks in his fever at the beginning of Scene 21?

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