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

2. In Scene 14, which prayer does a patient recite in a perverse form?
(a) Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
(b) The Apostles Creed.
(c) Our Father.
(d) Hail Mary.

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

4. Who anxiously follows behind Marat while the patients carry him on their shoulders in Scene 5?
(a) Simone.
(b) Corday.
(c) Sade.
(d) Coulmier.

5. Which of the following characters does not have a line in the Homage to Marat?
(a) Sade.
(b) Roux.
(c) Rossignol.
(d) Herald.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade at the beginning of Scene 15, what we do is the shadow of what?

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

3. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?

4. What is the basis for all life, according to Sade's works?

5. What abstract purveyor of death does Sade say he hates in Scene 12?

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