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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IX. Letters on Cruelty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."
(a) Stagnant.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Subliminal.
(d) Transcient.

2. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Mme. Richeliou.
(b) M. R. de R.
(c) Aguste Francois.
(d) J.P.

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) One year.
(b) Five months.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six years.

4. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Director.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Actor.
(d) Performance.

5. What does Artaud say has "maintained us for ten years in an ineffectual torpor"?
(a) Theater.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Opera.
(d) Movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?

2. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

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

5. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

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