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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. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?
(a) The director.
(b) The musician.
(c) The actor.
(d) The author.

2. What does Artaud say has "maintained us for ten years in an ineffectual torpor"?
(a) Movies.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Theater.
(d) Opera.

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Orpheus.

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

5. 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) Director.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."

2. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?

3. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?

4. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?

5. Who, in addition to Shakespeare and Aeschylus does Artaud refer to as a great classicist in his "Letters on Language"?

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