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

2. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?
(a) Heart.
(b) Senses.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Body.

3. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?
(a) Television.
(b) The movies.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The opera.

4. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."
(a) Men.
(b) Trivial matters.
(c) Wars.
(d) Life.

5. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Orpheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

2. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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

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

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

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