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

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

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

4. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."
(a) Wakes us up.
(b) Enables us.
(c) Enrages us.
(d) Frightens us.

5. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Metamorphoses.
(c) The Dionysian stories.
(d) The Orphic Mysteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

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

3. 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."

4. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?

5. What does Artaud say has "maintained us for ten years in an ineffectual torpor"?

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