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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man to whom Marat dictates his calls to the people?
(a) Alaine.
(b) Bas.
(c) Gaston.
(d) Kost.

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

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

4. How does Sade characterize his current station in the Revolution?
(a) Observor.
(b) Victim.
(c) Collaborator.
(d) Leader.

5. What doe the Singers complain still goes on in secret at the end of Scene 24?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Torture.
(c) Nepotism.
(d) Slavery.

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

7. Who has the final line of the play?
(a) Sade.
(b) Coulmier.
(c) Roux.
(d) Herald.

8. What does Coulmier invite the audience to do at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) Meet the actors.
(b) Embrace the newly-won peace of the present.
(c) Close the history book.
(d) Attend some post-performance drinks.

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

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

11. Near the end of Scene 27, what word does Marat say should be abolished?
(a) Want.
(b) Wealth.
(c) God.
(d) Dictator.

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

13. In Scene 28, Sade says that he wrote his lost masterpiece on what?
(a) The walls of a prison cell.
(b) Papyrus.
(c) The skin of a prostitute.
(d) A long roll or paper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Herald in Scene 31, what does Sade intend to show Marat before the murder?

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

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

4. When Coulmier interrupts Roux in Scene 19, what does he claim everyone in modern-day France is?

5. Into what does Roux demand the churches of France be converted?

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