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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VIII. The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Writing of language in his first manifesto, Artaud states, "It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have ______."
(a) In movies.
(b) In dreams.
(c) In physicality.
(d) In tribal rites.

2. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?
(a) They will perform classical plays.
(b) They will not perform written plays.
(c) They will elicit new playwrights.
(d) They will reinvent classics.

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Five years.
(b) Five months.
(c) One year.
(d) Six years.

4. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Science.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Mechanization.

5. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Kidneys and lungs.
(b) Brain and lungs.
(c) Heart and gall bladder.
(d) Pancreas and heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

2. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?

4. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

5. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?

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