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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.
(a) Bible verses.
(b) Ancient myths.
(c) Current events.
(d) Dream sequences.

2. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Acts.
(b) Dominates.
(c) Exists.
(d) Murders.

3. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Abdication."
(b) "War."
(c) "Confession."
(d) "Extraction."

4. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."
(a) Men.
(b) Trivial matters.
(c) Wars.
(d) Life.

5. The first line of Artaud's Second Manifesto, states, "Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, _________, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection."
(a) Freedom.
(b) A religious experience.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) The poetic state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second act of Artaud's proposed production?

2. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?

3. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?

4. What does Artaud compare actors of the "current" theater to in "The Theater and Cruelty"?

5. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

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