View a FREE sample

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. In Scene 13, what role did the kings hold to the people?
(a) Livelihoods.
(b) Servants.
(c) Messiahs.
(d) Fathers.

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

3. According to Sade at the beginning of Scene 15, what we do is the shadow of what?
(a) What we want to do.
(b) What we should do.
(c) What others have done before us.
(d) What we are ordered to do.

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

5. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is something that Sade claims the hypothetical Revolutionaries expect from the Revolution?

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

3. In Duperret's Scene 22 song, who is the only entity that man will be expected to obey in an ideal world?

4. In Scene 23, what does Marat warn the rich will do the the poor at a moment's notice?

5. Who speaks the final words of the first act?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 239 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample