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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. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Auteur de theatre.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Raison d'etre.
(d) Metteur en scène.

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Imbue poetry.
(b) Create magic.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Permit language.

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

4. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?
(a) Redevelop it.
(b) Read it and throw it away.
(c) Maintain it.
(d) Reinvent it.

5. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Code.
(b) Physical language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Obscurity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

2. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?

3. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

4. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

5. 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."

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