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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. In Scene 10, what do the Singers mention is clogging the sewers?
(a) Rancid meat.
(b) Flood water.
(c) Feces.
(d) Blood.

2. Which of the following is not an example Coulmier offers of the Church assisting the poor?
(a) Free housing.
(b) Soup kitchens.
(c) Clothing drives.
(d) Medical aid.

3. Which of the following characters does not have a line in the Homage to Marat?
(a) Herald.
(b) Rossignol.
(c) Roux.
(d) Sade.

4. What historical figure did Damiens try to assassinate?
(a) Robespierre.
(b) Cardinal Richaelieu.
(c) Louis XV.
(d) Danton.

5. What famous French text does Coulmier invoke in his Scene 2 speech?
(a) The Declaration of Pilnitz.
(b) Democracy in America.
(c) The Constitution of 1793.
(d) The Declaration of Human Rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room of the asylum does the play take place?

2. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

3. Which woman in the cast serves as Marat's nurse?

4. Who is attending Corday in the first scene of the play?

5. In Marat's Liturgy, which of the following is not a group that he accuses of lying to the poor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What proclamation about nationalism does Sade make in Scene 18?

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

4. What role does Marat imply he wants to play in France in Scene 27?

5. How doe Marat and Sade differ in their attitudes toward violent action?

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

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

8. How does the Herald characterize Sade?

9. What horrors does Corday witness in Scene 10?

10. Besides Coulmier, who interrupts the action of the play in this section?

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