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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 intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Abolish it.
(b) Raise it.
(c) Light it on fire.
(d) Put barriers around it.

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

3. 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) Religion.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Physical language.

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

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Cagliari.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

2. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

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

4. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

5. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?

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