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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 is the "lurid star" under which the Herald says Sade came to the asylum?
(a) Madness.
(b) Resistence.
(c) Notoriety.
(d) Passion.

2. From what country is the man who is brutally murdered by Sade's tailor?
(a) Germany.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Austro-Hungary.
(d) Belguim.

3. To what animal does Marat compare the members of the new ruling class in France?
(a) Falcon.
(b) Crocodile.
(c) Snail.
(d) Chimpanzee.

4. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

5. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Generals.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Corday spend her youth?

2. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

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

4. What is the forbidden word that that Duperret says France is speaking at the end of Scene 17?

5. What memorial of Marat does Sade prophesy the people will smash?

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