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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Holocaust term does Sade use in describing mankind's inclination to kill in Scene 12?
(a) Final solution.
(b) Concentration camp.
(c) Ghetto.
(d) Master race.

2. What abstract purveyor of death does Sade say he hates in Scene 12?
(a) Nature.
(b) Life.
(c) God.
(d) The Revolution.

3. What was the former profession of the interrupting patient in Scene 14?
(a) A diplomat.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) An abbot.
(d) A military attache.

4. Which of the following is not a famous moment of the Revolution mentioned in Scene 5?
(a) The killing of the aristocrats.
(b) The execution of the King.
(c) Danton's death.
(d) The fall of the Bastille.

5. In Scene 5, Kokol quips to Marat that Paris facing a shortage of what?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Gold.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shouts "Long live the Revolution" midway through the Homage to Marat?

2. Who anxiously follows behind Marat while the patients carry him on their shoulders in Scene 5?

3. What historical figure did Damiens try to assassinate?

4. In Scene 25, Which of the following roles is not one that Simone claims petitioners expect Marat to enact?

5. In Scene 6, Jacques Roux protests that the ruling class controls all of the following except which?

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