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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 Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Marseilles.

2. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1720.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1885.

3. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Cows.
(b) Swine.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

4. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Kidneys and lungs.
(b) Heart and gall bladder.
(c) Brain and lungs.
(d) Pancreas and heart.

5. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Adequate.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

2. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?

3. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

4. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

5. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?

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