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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. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Sets will be elaborate.
(b) There will be no set.
(c) Sets will be made of fabric.
(d) Sets will be period-specific.

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

3. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?
(a) They will not perform written plays.
(b) They will reinvent classics.
(c) They will perform classical plays.
(d) They will elicit new playwrights.

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

5. 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 stage.
(c) The past.
(d) The museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

2. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

4. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?

5. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

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