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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.
(a) Love.
(b) Space.
(c) Time.
(d) Life.

2. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Masks.
(b) Modern dress.
(c) Renaissance apparel.
(d) Asian-inspired costumes.

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Odysseus.

4. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Director."
(b) "Comedian."
(c) "Tragic actor."
(d) "Poet."

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Absolute and abstract purity.
(b) True understanding.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Answers to man's questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."

3. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

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