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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. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?
(a) Television.
(b) The movies.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The opera.

2. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Mais de scene.
(b) Metteur en scène.
(c) Dictator.
(d) Raison d'etre.

3. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The past.
(b) The museum.
(c) The stage.
(d) The future.

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?
(a) Jouissis.
(b) Rioutet.
(c) L'amour.
(d) Esprit.

5. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) Musical contribution.
(b) True gesture.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Old language and forms of expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

2. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?

3. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

5. 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 ____."

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