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

2. What famous French text does Coulmier invoke in his Scene 2 speech?
(a) The Declaration of Human Rights.
(b) The Constitution of 1793.
(c) The Declaration of Pilnitz.
(d) Democracy in America.

3. Who sings to the riled patients at the end of Scene 6?
(a) The sisters.
(b) Corday.
(c) Coulmier's family.
(d) Sade.

4. What does the Herald people are in 1808 that they were not in 1793?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Civilized.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Complacent.

5. Into what does Roux demand the churches of France be converted?
(a) Schools.
(b) Housing.
(c) Soup kitchens.
(d) Museums.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade at the end of Scene 11, from what does the guillotine deliver its victims?

2. What is the "lurid star" under which the Herald says Sade came to the asylum?

3. Which French Minister does Marat accuse of counterfeiting banknotes?

4. What character enters in the first scene at Sade beckon?

5. When Coulmier interrupts Roux in Scene 19, what does he claim everyone in modern-day France is?

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