View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Herald in Scene 19, what is the most sympathetic way to be executed?
(a) Burning at the stake.
(b) The guillotine.
(c) Cricifixion.
(d) Hemlock.

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

3. Into what does Roux demand the churches of France be converted?
(a) Museums.
(b) Housing.
(c) Schools.
(d) Soup kitchens.

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

5. Which of the following inmates is strait-jacketed throughout the entire play?
(a) Roux.
(b) Polpoch.
(c) Herald.
(d) Duperret.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 27, which character accuses Marat of handing the country over to the lowest common denominator?

2. Which of the following vocations is not mentioned among Sage's eight fictional artisans in Scene 24?

3. Who is in charge of France at the end of the Interruptus narrative?

4. Who do the Singers say speaks for all of France?

5. What is Sade doing in the final moments of the play?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 187 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample