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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 writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Mind.
(b) Magic.
(c) Science.
(d) Chemicals.

2. 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) Cruelty.
(b) Freedom.
(c) A religious experience.
(d) The poetic state.

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

4. 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.

5. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Smokescreen.
(b) Mirage.
(c) Art.
(d) Mirror.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?

2. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?

3. What is the name of the second act of Artaud's proposed production?

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

5. According to the author, "Our long habit of seeking _____ has made us forget the idea of a serious theater."

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