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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 maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The future.
(b) The museum.
(c) The stage.
(d) The past.

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

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

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Science.
(b) Magic.
(c) Mind.
(d) Chemicals.

5. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Monster.
(b) Beast.
(c) Parent.
(d) Puppet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?

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

3. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?

4. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

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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