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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. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) "Final Ship."
(b) "Warning Signs."
(c) "Evil Awaits."
(d) "Blast of Cannons."

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

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) Daily life.
(b) The transcendent.
(c) The supernatural.
(d) The magical.

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

5. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?
(a) Sensation.
(b) Clamoring.
(c) Agitation.
(d) Terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

3. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."

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 name of the second act of Artaud's proposed production?

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