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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. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Africa.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Egypt.

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

3. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Gutteral reactions.
(b) Spiritual states.
(c) Psychological responses.
(d) God-like entities.

4. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Suspension of disbelief.
(b) Structure.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Lie.

5. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Theater of meaning.
(c) Theater of gesture.
(d) Theater of shadows.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

5. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

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