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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. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) Cortez.
(b) D'Ablo.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Hurez.

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

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Destroy everything.
(b) Create magic.
(c) Imbue poetry.
(d) Permit language.

4. According to the author, "Our long habit of seeking _____ has made us forget the idea of a serious theater."
(a) Joy.
(b) Realism.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Diversion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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

3. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?

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

5. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."

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