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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a judge in Revolutionary tribunals, what does Sade find himself unable to do?
(a) Look victims in the eyes.
(b) Stay awake.
(c) Show mercy.
(d) Sentence men to death.

2. In Scene 30, of what does Sade say the world consists?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Monetary interests.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Lies.

3. What is the forbidden word that that Duperret says France is speaking at the end of Scene 17?
(a) Peace.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Marat.
(d) Monarchy.

4. In Scene 30, Sade tells Marat that his writings mean nothing compared to what?
(a) The indifference of history.
(b) Corday's body.
(c) Sade's writings.
(d) The death they inspired.

5. What is Sade doing in the final moments of the play?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Undressing.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Dancing.

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

7. Who interrupts the song several times during the Epilogue?
(a) Sade.
(b) Roux.
(c) Marat.
(d) Coulmier.

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

9. According to Marat in Scene 27, what has the Minister of War sold to France's enemies?
(a) State secrets.
(b) Arms.
(c) His chateau.
(d) Corn.

10. Which of the following items is not something Marat blindly seeks in his fever at the beginning of Scene 21?
(a) His pen.
(b) His ink.
(c) His paper.
(d) His compress.

11. Who speaks the final words of the first act?
(a) Roux.
(b) Coulmier.
(c) Sade.
(d) Herald.

12. Which of the following is not something the Singers accuse the rich of hoarding at the beginning of Scene 16?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Friends.
(c) Gold.
(d) Arms.

13. Which of the following groups is not one that Coulmier interrupts the play to defend?
(a) The high academics.
(b) The soldiers.
(c) The post-Revolutionary politicians.
(d) The priests.

14. Which of the following body parts is not one Corday mentions still having life after beheading in Scene 29?
(a) Legs.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Genitals.
(d) Tongue.

15. What does Sade want remembered about himself after his death?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His writings.
(c) His work with the Revolution.
(d) His mad actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sade characterize his current station in the Revolution?

2. What memorial of Marat does Sade prophesy the people will smash?

3. What affliction begins to show itself in Sade as he is whipped?

4. Who separates Duperrat and Corday when the former begins to molest the latter?

5. In Scene 23, what does Marat warn the rich will do the the poor at a moment's notice?

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