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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. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Swine.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cows.

2. In his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes, "I do not systematically cultivate _____."
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Fear.
(c) Bloodshed.
(d) Horror.

3. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Artistry.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Science.
(d) Mathematics.

4. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Religion.
(b) Code.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Physical language.

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) True gesture.
(b) Old language and forms of expression.
(c) Musical contribution.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

2. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

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

4. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

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