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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Corday spend her youth?
(a) A military barracks.
(b) A convent.
(c) Prussia.
(d) Paris.

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

3. At the end of Scene 27, what does Duperret demand replace hysteria and fanaticism?
(a) Love and tenderness.
(b) Reconciliation and empathy.
(c) Calm and analysis.
(d) Beauty and concord.

4. In the Singers' Scene 21 song, what has just been destroyed?
(a) Marat's printing press.
(b) Corday's carriage.
(c) Marat's front door.
(d) The central guillotine scaffold.

5. How do the Singers say they will impart the words they cannot speak freely?
(a) Carve them into our skin.
(b) Shout them from the rafters.
(c) Keep them to themselves.
(d) Breathe them in our ear.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a judge in Revolutionary tribunals, what does Sade find himself unable to do?

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

3. Into what does Roux demand the churches of France be converted?

4. In Scene 30, how does Corday respond to Duperret's entreaty to leave Paris?

5. In Scene 30, of what does Sade say the world consists?

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