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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. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Elaborate show.
(b) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(c) Mass spectacle.
(d) Ingenius disguise.

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

3. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Suspension of disbelief.
(b) Lie.
(c) Structure.
(d) Anarchy.

4. 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.
(a) Current events.
(b) Dream sequences.
(c) Bible verses.
(d) Ancient myths.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?

2. Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer."

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

4. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?

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

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