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

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

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

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

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

6. In Scene 18, for what group does Marat say the Revolution was fought?
(a) The military.
(b) The poor.
(c) The politicians.
(d) Merchants.

7. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Kings.
(d) Generals.

8. According to the Herald in Scene 31, what does Sade intend to show Marat before the murder?
(a) Compassion.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) The future.
(d) The full conspiracy against him.

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

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

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

12. Into what does Roux demand the churches of France be converted?
(a) Housing.
(b) Museums.
(c) Schools.
(d) Soup kitchens.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Duperret's Scene 22 song, who is the only entity that man will be expected to obey in an ideal world?

2. Who begins throwing items at the nurses during the Epilogue?

3. At the end of Scene 16, the Harald claims the players want to see the people live in harmony with what?

4. What color is Corday's hair?

5. What is Sade doing in the final moments of the play?

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