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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) Cricifixion.
(b) Burning at the stake.
(c) The guillotine.
(d) Hemlock.

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

3. What does Simone think she sees in the sky in Scene 21?
(a) An eclipse.
(b) The hand of God.
(c) The moon.
(d) Smoke.

4. What was the subject of the suppressed work that Marat describes in Scene 28?
(a) Slavery.
(b) The soul.
(c) Death.
(d) Social action.

5. To what animal does Marat compare the members of the new ruling class in France?
(a) Falcon.
(b) Snail.
(c) Chimpanzee.
(d) Crocodile.

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

7. Who begins throwing items at the nurses during the Epilogue?
(a) Duperret.
(b) Corday.
(c) Marat.
(d) Herald.

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

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

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

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

12. At the end of Scene 16, the Harald claims the players want to see the people live in harmony with what?
(a) The Church.
(b) Government.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) The military.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups is not one that Coulmier interrupts the play to defend?

2. Near the end of Scene 27, what word does Marat say should be abolished?

3. What color is Corday's hair?

4. What is the forbidden word that that Duperret says France is speaking at the end of Scene 17?

5. In Scene 30, how does Corday respond to Duperret's entreaty to leave Paris?

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