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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marat demand be done with the seized farmland?
(a) It should be converted into a public park.
(b) Schools should be built on it.
(c) It should be divided into allotments.
(d) It should be used for military exercises.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When Coulmier interrupts Roux in Scene 19, what does he claim everyone in modern-day France is?
(a) A revolutionary.
(b) A nationalist.
(c) A peacemaker.
(d) A millionaire.

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

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

12. Who is the first voice from Marat's past to speak in Scene 26?
(a) His mother.
(b) His schoolmaster.
(c) A military representative.
(d) His father.

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

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

15. What affliction begins to show itself in Sade as he is whipped?
(a) Profuse sweating.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Heart palpitations.
(d) Incontinence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Singers at the end of Scene 25, what can Marat not cure?

2. Who is in charge of France at the end of the Interruptus narrative?

3. Who do the Singers say speaks for all of France?

4. What are the fates of both Duperret and Corday after Marat's murder?

5. At the end of Scene 27, what does Duperret demand replace hysteria and fanaticism?

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