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

2. 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 ____."
(a) Magic.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Science.
(d) Mind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third act of Artaud's proposed production?

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

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

4. 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."

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

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