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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the author address the first letter in "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Jean Racine.
(b) Alexander Pierre.
(c) J. P.
(d) Mme. Richeliou.

2. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) D'Ablo.
(b) Hurez.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Cortez.

3. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Renaissance apparel.
(b) Asian-inspired costumes.
(c) Masks.
(d) Modern dress.

4. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Adequate.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Realistic.

5. The first line of Artaud's Second Manifesto, states, "Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, _________, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection."
(a) Freedom.
(b) A religious experience.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) The poetic state.

6. Writing of language in his first manifesto, Artaud states, "It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have ______."
(a) In movies.
(b) In physicality.
(c) In tribal rites.
(d) In dreams.

7. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?
(a) Theater.
(b) Art.
(c) Music.
(d) Film.

8. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."
(a) Frightens us.
(b) Wakes us up.
(c) Enables us.
(d) Enrages us.

9. In his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?
(a) Ethiopian Ras.
(b) Egyptian kings.
(c) Colonizers.
(d) Nazis.

10. The _____ apportions the human breath into six principal arcana.
(a) Hindu priest.
(b) Cabala.
(c) Medical journal.
(d) Bible.

11. In his second note of "Two Notes," Artaud writes, "everything that is ______ is sacred and since his gestures are so beautiful that they take on a symbolic significance."
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Authentic.
(d) Realistic.

12. 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) Physics.
(b) Language.
(c) Importance.
(d) Dynamic.

13. Artaud claims in his first letter of "Letters on Language" that while it still qualifies as "theater," a play which depends entirely on a scripted text is nothing but a _____ of theater.
(a) Distraction.
(b) Perversion.
(c) Bad attempt.
(d) Imitation.

14. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Mass spectacle.
(b) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(c) Ingenius disguise.
(d) Elaborate show.

15. To whom does Artaud write his second letter of "Letters on Language"?
(a) M.B.C.
(b) Auguste Francois.
(c) M. R. de R.
(d) J.P.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.

2. To whom is Artaud's first letter in "Letters on Language"?

3. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?

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

5. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?

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