1. 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"?
(a) Oriental theater.
(b) Occidental theater.
(c) African theater.
(d) American theater.

2. In his second note of "Two Notes," the author writes "When an atmosphere is so transformed that a hostile audience is suddenly and blindly immersed and invincibly disarmed, it must be hailed as _____."
(a) A success.
(b) A truth.
(c) An event.
(d) A transformation.

3. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Singing.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Poetry.

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

5. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Sets will be period-specific.
(b) Sets will be elaborate.
(c) Sets will be made of fabric.
(d) There will be no set.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

2. Every breath has how many kinds of time?

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

4. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?

5. What is the name of the second act of Artaud's proposed production?

(see the answer key)

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