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

2. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Swine.
(c) Cats.
(d) Cows.

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) Sappho.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Odysseus.

4. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud describes the themes for the Theater of Cruelty as based on the ________ of ancient civilizations from all over the world.
(a) Theater.
(b) Sacred texts.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Religions.

5. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.
(a) Running.
(b) Throwing.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Catching.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

2. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

3. What does Artaud compare actors of the "current" theater to in "The Theater and Cruelty"?

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."

5. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?

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