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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sade at the beginning of Scene 15, what we do is the shadow of what?
(a) What others have done before us.
(b) What we should do.
(c) What we want to do.
(d) What we are ordered to do.

2. What abstract purveyor of death does Sade say he hates in Scene 12?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Life.
(d) The Revolution.

3. Which of the following is not a famous moment of the Revolution mentioned in Scene 5?
(a) The execution of the King.
(b) Danton's death.
(c) The fall of the Bastille.
(d) The killing of the aristocrats.

4. Who anxiously follows behind Marat while the patients carry him on their shoulders in Scene 5?
(a) Corday.
(b) Coulmier.
(c) Sade.
(d) Simone.

5. What right's inclusion in the Revolution's declaration does Marat lament at the end of Scene 15?
(a) Freedom from want.
(b) Property.
(c) A fair trial.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the basis for all life, according to Sade's works?

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

3. In Scene 5, Kokol quips to Marat that Paris facing a shortage of what?

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

5. In Scene 13, what does Marat say is the essential lie the ruling class gave the poor?

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