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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) Lie.
(d) Anarchy.

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

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

4. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The director.
(b) The actor.
(c) The set designer.
(d) The audience.

5. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Men.
(b) Gods.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Insects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

4. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

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