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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. To what building does Corday compare Paris in Scene 10?
(a) A slaughterhouse.
(b) A public bath.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) An outhouse.

2. In Scene 13, what role did the kings hold to the people?
(a) Servants.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Messiahs.
(d) Livelihoods.

3. What is the color of the dagger's handle in Scene 10?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

4. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 13.

5. What does the Herald people are in 1808 that they were not in 1793?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Civilized.
(c) Complacent.
(d) Afraid.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 5, Kokol quips to Marat that Paris facing a shortage of what?

2. At the end of Scene 11, where does Corday imagine she is?

3. What action is Simone performing at the beginning of Scene 3?

4. Who sings to the riled patients at the end of Scene 6?

5. What is the basis for all life, according to Sade's works?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events related in Scene 31.

2. What is the role of the audience in the play?

3. Why does Sade feel the need to write horrific stories of aristocrats while in the Bastille?

4. What horrors does Corday witness in Scene 10?

5. What point about social status does the Herald make when he introduces the Singers?

6. What is the nature of Marat's life in 1793?

7. What interrupts the murder of Marat in Scene 31?

8. How does the Herald describe Marat in Scene 4?

9. In what way does Coulmier claim the bathouse is a particularly appropriate setting for Sade's play?

10. How does Corday's sickness affect her performance?

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