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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, 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.

2. 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."
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Science.

3. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Dionysian stories.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Orphic Mysteries.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

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

5. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) True.
(b) False.
(c) Poetic.
(d) Complete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

2. 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."

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

4. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

5. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

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