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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 was the subject of the suppressed work that Marat describes in Scene 28?
(a) Death.
(b) Slavery.
(c) The soul.
(d) Social action.

2. In Marat's Liturgy, which of the following is not a group that he accuses of lying to the poor?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Kings.
(c) Priests.
(d) Poets.

3. What is the basis for all life, according to Sade's works?
(a) Death.
(b) Indolence.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Suffering.

4. How old is Marat when the events of the play begin?
(a) 72.
(b) 35.
(c) 50.
(d) 23.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attending Corday in the first scene of the play?

2. Which of the following is not something that Duperret accuses Mara of being in Scene 17?

3. Who does Coulmier thank at the beginning of his speech in Scene 2?

4. According to Marat, what does one see everywhere one looks in 1793?

5. How many years after the Revolution do the events of the play-within-the-play take place?

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