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

2. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It exists on stage.
(c) It is abstract.
(d) It is anarchy.

3. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Dance.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Sculpture.

4. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?
(a) Actors.
(b) Proscenium staging.
(c) Sacred texts.
(d) Directors.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

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

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

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