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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
(a) Art.
(b) Religion.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Truth.

2. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

3. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
(a) Dance.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Poetry.

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

5. In his third letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states that he never meant for cruelty to be used sporadically, but rather as the _____ of his theater."
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Property.
(c) Accoutrement.
(d) Foundation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud describes the themes for the Theater of Cruelty as based on the ________ of ancient civilizations from all over the world.

3. 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?

4. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

5. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

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