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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 accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Peeping Toms.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Idiots.

2. 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) Transcient.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Subliminal.

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

4. 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) Dictatorship.
(c) Worship.
(d) Homage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?

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

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

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

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