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

2. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Renewed exorcisms.
(c) Tribal rites.
(d) Religious ecstacy.

3. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Puppet.
(b) Monster.
(c) Beast.
(d) Parent.

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

5. In his first letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud claims that "it is understood that life is always" what?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Murder.
(c) Someone's death.
(d) Bloodshed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

3. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

4. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?

5. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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