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

2. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Answers to man's questions.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) True understanding.

3. Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer."
(a) Leadership.
(b) Worship.
(c) Homage.
(d) Dictatorship.

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 writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Subliminal.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Virtual.
(d) Transcient.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?

3. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

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

5. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."

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