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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Scene 27, which character accuses Marat of handing the country over to the lowest common denominator?
(a) Corday.
(b) Sade.
(c) Roux.
(d) Duperret.

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

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

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

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

7. In the Singers' Scene 21 song, what has just been destroyed?
(a) Marat's front door.
(b) The central guillotine scaffold.
(c) Corday's carriage.
(d) Marat's printing press.

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

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

10. What are the fates of both Duperret and Corday after Marat's murder?
(a) They are given positions in Danton's government.
(b) They go into hiding.
(c) They are executed.
(d) The are exiled from France.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Marat, why is the rumor being spread that wages will soon be raised?

2. Who interrupts the song several times during the Epilogue?

3. Which famous Revolutionary figure does Marat accuse of turning white at the mention of force?

4. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?

5. As a judge in Revolutionary tribunals, what does Sade find himself unable to do?

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