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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. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Suspension of disbelief.
(b) Structure.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Lie.

2. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Monte Blanc.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Greenland.

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

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Art.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Theater.

5. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?
(a) Religious ecstacy.
(b) Tribal rites.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Renewed exorcisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

2. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?

3. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?

4. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?

5. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

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