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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 does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?
(a) Insane.
(b) Rational.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Boring.

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

3. What does Artaud say has "maintained us for ten years in an ineffectual torpor"?
(a) Opera.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Theater.
(d) Movies.

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

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

Short Answer 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 ____."

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

3. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

4. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud writes that "the Theater of Cruelty will address itself only to _____ man.

5. What is the name of the third act of Artaud's proposed production?

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