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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 sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Religious and mystic.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Beauty and language.

2. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?
(a) Vibrations.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Breath.
(d) Movement.

3. In what year were the letters dated from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1932.

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

5. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?
(a) Read it and throw it away.
(b) Reinvent it.
(c) Maintain it.
(d) Redevelop it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

2. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

3. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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.

5. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?

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