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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 20 and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Scene 6, a patient claims that all are free and equal to do what?
(a) Strive.
(b) Die.
(c) Toil.
(d) Starve.

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

3. Who stops Corday from prematurely murdering Marat in Scene 9?
(a) Sade.
(b) A sister.
(c) Simone.
(d) Coulmier.

4. What does Sade want remembered about himself after his death?
(a) His work with the Revolution.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His mad actions.
(d) His writings.

5. Which of the following is not a term hurled at the poor when a shop is looted?
(a) Charlatans.
(b) Beggars.
(c) Villains.
(d) Gutter rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has the Marquis de Sade been living at Charenton at the time of the play?

2. What affliction begins to show itself in Sade as he is whipped?

3. What was Jacques Roux's former profession?

4. In what French town is the play's asylum located?

5. According to Sade at the beginning of Scene 15, what we do is the shadow of what?

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