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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 in Scene 19, what is the most sympathetic way to be executed?
(a) Burning at the stake.
(b) Hemlock.
(c) The guillotine.
(d) Cricifixion.

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

3. What does Sade say is essential to any real revolution in Scene 30?
(a) A goal.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Blood.
(d) Copulation.

4. According to Corday in Scene 29, who fills the prisons of Paris?
(a) Innocent men.
(b) Martyrs.
(c) Charlatans and rakes.
(d) Her friends.

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

6. Which book of the Old Testament does Corday read in Caen?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Leviticus.
(d) Judith.

7. Which French Minister does Marat accuse of counterfeiting banknotes?
(a) The Minister of Trade.
(b) The Minister of Commerce.
(c) The Minister of Labor.
(d) The Minister of Finance.

8. Which of the following inmates is strait-jacketed throughout the entire play?
(a) Polpoch.
(b) Roux.
(c) Duperret.
(d) Herald.

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

10. In Scene 25, Which of the following roles is not one that Simone claims petitioners expect Marat to enact?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Confessor.
(d) Father.

11. Where did Corday spend her youth?
(a) A convent.
(b) Paris.
(c) Prussia.
(d) A military barracks.

12. What two things does Corday claim Marat wants in Scene 17?
(a) Anarchy and confusion.
(b) Wealth and preference.
(c) Law and order.
(d) Anonymity and peace.

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

14. According to the Singers at the end of Scene 25, what can Marat not cure?
(a) His own disease.
(b) A beheaded aristocrat.
(c) All social ills.
(d) The cancer on the National Assembly.

15. Who do the Singers say speaks for all of France?
(a) Marat.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Sade.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 28, Sade says that he wrote his lost masterpiece on what?

2. At the end of Scene 28, the Singers complain that Marat's writings have done what to France?

3. In Scene 30, Sade tells Marat that his writings mean nothing compared to what?

4. Which of the following is not something that Duperret accuses Mara of being in Scene 17?

5. How many years does the Interruptus cover?

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