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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scenes 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actions are the Male Nurses performing at the top of the play?
(a) Applying bandages and giving medication.
(b) Chaining patients.
(c) Playing cards and drinking wine.
(d) Bathing and massages.

2. According to Corday's song in Scene 7, to what does Marat's way lead?
(a) Sewers and refuse.
(b) Eternal slavery.
(c) Rivers of blood.
(d) Mountains of dead.

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

4. What device's "singing" is Corday said to have hears in Scene 10?
(a) The guillotine.
(b) The pipe organ.
(c) The tumbrel.
(d) The printing press.

5. What part of Marat's body does Corday she wants to see sweat as she draws her knife?
(a) His chest.
(b) His forehead.
(c) His armpits.
(d) His back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coulmier protests in Scene 11 that he brought in the public to show that his patients are not what?

2. Which of the following vocations is not mentioned among Sage's eight fictional artisans in Scene 24?

3. Who separates Duperrat and Corday when the former begins to molest the latter?

4. In what room of the asylum does the play take place?

5. Which of the follow is not something the singers of Scene 5 suggest be done to the ruling class of 1793?

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