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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Empty performance.
(b) Poetic notion.
(c) Dramatic lie.
(d) Performed text.

2. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) "Evil Awaits."
(b) "Final Ship."
(c) "Warning Signs."
(d) "Blast of Cannons."

3. In what film did Artaud play the role of "Marat"?
(a) "Joan d'Arc."
(b) "Napoleon."
(c) "A Winter's Tale."
(d) "Marat/Sade."

4. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Triviality.
(b) Music.
(c) Staging.
(d) Speech.

5. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Jarry's.
(b) Nietzsche's.
(c) Racine's.
(d) Copeau's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?

2. Of the performer in Artaud's second note, he writes, "His spectacle demonstrates the irresistible expressiveness of" what?

3. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?

4. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

5. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

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