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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XII. An Affective Athleticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?
(a) His poetry.
(b) His Manifesto.
(c) His concept.
(d) His play.

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

3. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) A god.
(c) An actor.
(d) A mask.

4. In his first letter of "Letters on Language," Artaud insists that the task of ______ must not be subordinated to spoken or written words as if this task was simply an accessory to theater."
(a) Playwright.
(b) Actor.
(c) Director.
(d) Mise en scene.

5. Artaud claims that if the theater fails to successfully reproduce the works of the great classics, it is because we have lost the sense of their theater's what?
(a) Physics.
(b) Language.
(c) Importance.
(d) Dynamic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?

2. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

3. The first line of Artaud's Second Manifesto, states, "Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, _________, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection."

4. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?

5. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."

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