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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. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Subliminal.
(d) Virtual.

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Saint-Remys.
(b) Artaud.
(c) DuPlace.
(d) Lord Bastillion.

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

4. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Metteur en scène.
(b) Dictator.
(c) Raison d'etre.
(d) Mais de scene.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

3. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

4. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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

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