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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Jarry.
(c) Zola.
(d) Racine.

2. What is the title of the second note Artaud writes in "Two Notes"?
(a) "Animal Crackers."
(b) "Autour D'une Mère."
(c) "Monkey Business."
(d) "Thoughts on Film."

3. "When the poetic spirit is exercised, it always leads toward a kind of boiling ______, an essential disintegration of the real by poetry."
(a) Dissimilation.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Redemption.

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

5. 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) An event.
(c) A truth.
(d) A transformation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?

2. In his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?

3. What did the performer replicate in the production Artaud speaks of in his second note of "Two Notes"?

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?

5. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the themes and content of the "Theater of Cruelty" based on the second manifesto. What is the spectacle like?

2. What does Artaud write of in his third letter of "Letters on Language," which follows the publication of his Manifesto?

3. Describe the events of the first two acts of "The Conquest of Mexico."

4. What is Artaud's subject in his first note from "Two Notes"?

5. What physically must an actor learn to localize in his body?

6. Describe how Artaud defines the images and movement of the "Theater of Cruelty" in his second manifesto.

7. Discuss how Artaud's time and place impact his vision of the theater.

8. Who is Hieronymous Bosch and why does Artaud write about him in "The Theater of Cruelty"?

9. What movie does Artaud use in comparison to his main subject in the first note of "Two Notes"? What does he write of American filmmakers?

10. What must the actor control in order to relate emotions he wants to convey?

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