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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actions are the Male Nurses performing at the top of the play?
(a) Bathing and massages.
(b) Chaining patients.
(c) Playing cards and drinking wine.
(d) Applying bandages and giving medication.

2. In Scene 7, what does Corday contend is spurting from Marat's hiding place?
(a) Fear.
(b) Blood.
(c) Hope.
(d) Poison.

3. Who shouts "Long live the Revolution" midway through the Homage to Marat?
(a) Marat.
(b) Sade.
(c) Roux.
(d) Simone.

4. What does Simone tell Corday to do when she sends her away in Scene 9?
(a) Leave Paris at once.
(b) Try back later.
(c) Write Marat a letter.
(d) Never return.

5. What disease's effects are the wigs described in Scene 10 intended to conceal?
(a) Dysentary.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Dysphasia.
(d) Anemia.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country is the man who is brutally murdered by Sade's tailor?

2. Which character's name does the Chorus chant in unison during Scene 7?

3. Who accompanies Coulmier when he enters the stage?

4. To what does the Herald compare Marat's skin in Scene 4?

5. How many times does the Herald knock his staff at the beginning of Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What recommendation does Coulmier make to Sade and the assembled actors at the end of Scene 6?

2. Describe the setting of the play.

3. How does the Herald set the scene at the end of Scene 4?

4. What is Sade's ultimate attitude toward Marat?

5. How does the cast indicate the beginning of performance in Scene 3?

6. How has the role of Jacques Roux been changed by Coulmier?

7. Describe Corday and Duperret's interchange in Scene 29.

8. In Scene 28, how do the Singers tell Marat he could avoid his death?

9. Who is present on behalf of the asylum to oversee the Patients?

10. How do the actors' mental afflictions affect their performances?

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