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

2. In Scene 23, what does Marat warn the rich will do the the poor at a moment's notice?
(a) Send them to war.
(b) Burn down their homes.
(c) Have them killed.
(d) Turn them out on the streets.

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

4. In what way does Coulmier protest Sade must present his play?
(a) More decent.
(b) More positive.
(c) Subtler.
(d) Livelier.

5. How does Sade characterize the process by which Revolutionaries dole out death sentences?
(a) Haphazard.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Orgiastic.
(d) Soporific.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene 5, Kokol quips to Marat that Paris facing a shortage of what?

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

3. Who sings to the riled patients at the end of Scene 6?

4. Which two animals do the singers invoke to describe Marat in Scene 5?

5. Which of the following groups is not one lambasted by the singers of Scene 5?

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