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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. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Magic.
(c) Gold.
(d) Symbols.

2. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) Cortez.
(b) Hurez.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) D'Ablo.

3. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?
(a) Senses.
(b) Body.
(c) Heart.
(d) Intellect.

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

5. 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.

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. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

3. 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 ____."

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

5. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud describes the themes for the Theater of Cruelty as based on the ________ of ancient civilizations from all over the world.

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