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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. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Dominates.
(b) Acts.
(c) Exists.
(d) Murders.

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.
(a) Sacred texts.
(b) Religions.
(c) Theater.
(d) Poetry.

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

4. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Create magic.
(b) Permit language.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Imbue poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

2. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."

3. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.

4. 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."

5. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?

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