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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous Revolutionary figure does Marat accuse of turning white at the mention of force?
(a) Danton.
(b) Dumouriez.
(c) Robespierre.
(d) Tallyrand.

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

3. Who do the Singers say speaks for all of France?
(a) Marat.
(b) No one.
(c) Sade.
(d) Napoleon.

4. In Scene 28, Sade says that he wrote his lost masterpiece on what?
(a) Papyrus.
(b) The walls of a prison cell.
(c) The skin of a prostitute.
(d) A long roll or paper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the fates of both Duperret and Corday after Marat's murder?

2. Who has the final line of the play?

3. What does Coulmier invite the audience to do at the beginning of the Epilogue?

4. Which of the following body parts is not one Corday mentions still having life after beheading in Scene 29?

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

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