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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not something the Singers accuse the rich of hoarding at the beginning of Scene 16?
(a) Gold.
(b) Arms.
(c) Friends.
(d) Jobs.

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

3. What does Marat demand be done with the seized farmland?
(a) It should be divided into allotments.
(b) Schools should be built on it.
(c) It should be used for military exercises.
(d) It should be converted into a public park.

4. Who is in charge of France at the end of the Interruptus narrative?
(a) Louis XV.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Robespierre.
(d) Danton.

5. Which character does not sing at all during the play?
(a) Marat.
(b) Duperret.
(c) Corday.
(d) Cucurucu.

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

7. In Scene 25, Which of the following roles is not one that Simone claims petitioners expect Marat to enact?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Father.
(d) Confessor.

8. In Duperret's Scene 22 song, who is the only entity that man will be expected to obey in an ideal world?
(a) The king.
(b) Himself.
(c) God.
(d) The market.

9. As a judge in Revolutionary tribunals, what does Sade find himself unable to do?
(a) Look victims in the eyes.
(b) Sentence men to death.
(c) Show mercy.
(d) Stay awake.

10. Which of the following is not something that Duperret accuses Mara of being in Scene 17?
(a) A salesman.
(b) A Jew.
(c) A dictator.
(d) A layabout.

11. According to Marat, why is the rumor being spread that wages will soon be raised?
(a) To gauge public opinion on this.
(b) To quell violent discontent.
(c) To increase production.
(d) To find organizers amongst the workers.

12. Who speaks the final words of the first act?
(a) Coulmier.
(b) Roux.
(c) Herald.
(d) Sade.

13. Which of the following is something that Sade claims the hypothetical Revolutionaries expect from the Revolution?
(a) A bigger house.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Bags of gold.
(d) A milder summer.

14. What is the name of the man to whom Marat dictates his calls to the people?
(a) Bas.
(b) Gaston.
(c) Alaine.
(d) Kost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 30, Sade tells Marat that his writings mean nothing compared to what?

2. Which of the following inmates is strait-jacketed throughout the entire play?

3. What was the subject of the suppressed work that Marat describes in Scene 28?

4. Who has the final line of the play?

5. Where did Corday spend her youth?

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