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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 tribal rites.
(b) In movies.
(c) In dreams.
(d) In physicality.

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

3. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Cagliari.

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Orpheus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

3. 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."

4. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

5. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

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