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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 16, 17, 18, and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scene 13, what does Marat say is the essential lie the ruling class gave the poor?
(a) Love of enemies.
(b) Divine right.
(c) Poverty as a virtue.
(d) Honor in suffering.

2. From what French town does Corday reside?
(a) Caen.
(b) Burgundy.
(c) Cannes.
(d) Paris.

3. At the beginning of Scene 8, what does Simone implore Marat to stop doing?
(a) Crying.
(b) Scratching himself.
(c) Staying awake all night.
(d) Writing.

4. Which of the following is not a term hurled at the poor when a shop is looted?
(a) Beggars.
(b) Charlatans.
(c) Villains.
(d) Gutter rats.

5. What object is Marat staring at as he writes at the beginning of Scene 7?
(a) A knife.
(b) A map.
(c) His bath.
(d) A portrait of Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?

2. Where on her body does Corday carry her knife?

3. In Scene 14, which prayer does a patient recite in a perverse form?

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

5. As the chorus sings about the Revolution, what body part do they say is bleeding?

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