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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. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Mirage.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Art.
(d) Smokescreen.

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

3. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Racine's.
(b) Nietzsche's.
(c) Copeau's.
(d) Jarry's.

4. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The past.
(b) The stage.
(c) The future.
(d) The museum.

5. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?
(a) African theater.
(b) American theater.
(c) Occidental theater.
(d) Oriental theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

3. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

4. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.

5. Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer."

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