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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 Coulmier's official position?
(a) Magistrate.
(b) Monsignor.
(c) Ambassador from the Emperor.
(d) Director of the Asylum.

2. Which philosopher does Corday cite in her song in Scene 7?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Rousseau.

3. Who is attending Corday in the first scene of the play?
(a) Two sisters.
(b) Two male nurses.
(c) Marat.
(d) Sade.

4. In Scene 10, what do the Singers mention is clogging the sewers?
(a) Feces.
(b) Rancid meat.
(c) Flood water.
(d) Blood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What affliction of Marat does the Schoolmaster mock in Scene 26?

2. According to the Herald at the end of Scene 4, what is the audience about to watch Marat do?

3. What part of Marat's body does Corday she wants to see sweat as she draws her knife?

4. Who is the first voice from Marat's past to speak in Scene 26?

5. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

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