The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A god.
(b) An actor.
(c) A disaster.
(d) A mask.

2. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Expression.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Action.
(d) Emotion.

3. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Gestures.
(c) Vocal tones.
(d) Emotions.

4. Artaud claims that if the theater fails to successfully reproduce the works of the great classics, it is because we have lost the sense of their theater's what?
(a) Language.
(b) Physics.
(c) Dynamic.
(d) Importance.

5. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Beauty and language.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Religious and mystic.
(d) Psychological.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

3. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

4. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

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

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