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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 "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Smokescreen.
(b) Mirage.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Art.

2. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Mass spectacle.
(b) Elaborate show.
(c) Ingenius disguise.
(d) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.

3. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Peeping Toms.
(d) Idiots.

4. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Metamorphoses.
(b) The Dionysian stories.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Orphic Mysteries.

5. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.
(b) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(c) Heaven and Hell.
(d) A world of artistic vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

2. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud writes that "the Theater of Cruelty will address itself only to _____ man.

3. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

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

5. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

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