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

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

3. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?
(a) It resurrects tortured gods.
(b) It aims to redeem mankind.
(c) It attacks the foundation of culture.
(d) Its basis is that of pain.

4. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Insects.
(b) Gods.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?

3. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?

4. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?

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

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