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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 his last letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud says that in fact, the theater he is defining has to assume another _____ in order to function.
(a) Meaning.
(b) Theme.
(c) Definition.
(d) Civilization.

2. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) Oriental.
(d) Mexican.

3. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Saint-Remys.
(c) Calgiari.
(d) Grand-Saint-Antoine.

4. In what year were the letters dated from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1938.

5. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Psychological responses.
(b) Spiritual states.
(c) Gutteral reactions.
(d) God-like entities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.

3. 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."

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

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

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