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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. In the Singers' Scene 21 song, what has just been destroyed?
(a) Corday's carriage.
(b) Marat's printing press.
(c) Marat's front door.
(d) The central guillotine scaffold.

2. In Scene 6, Jacques Roux protests that the ruling class controls all of the following except which?
(a) The estates.
(b) The markets.
(c) The military camps.
(d) The granaries.

3. Which world does Roux utter in Scene 4 before being shushed by Coulmier?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Death.
(c) Never.
(d) Curse.

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

5. In Scene 11, Marat accuses aristocrats of make secret deals with whom?
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) The deposed royal family.
(c) The reactionary bourgeoisie.
(d) Foreign armies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The song in Scene 10 details Corday's arrival in what town?

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

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

4. What mimic do the patients perform in the background of Scene 11?

5. At the end of Scene 11, where does Corday imagine she is?

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