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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. The author claims that actors in France no longer "know how to do anything but" what?
(a) Bore.
(b) Stand.
(c) Sing.
(d) Talk.
2. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The metaphysical.
(b) The realistic.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The music.
3. 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) Actor.
(b) Playwright.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Director.
4. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) True understanding.
(b) Absolute and abstract purity.
(c) Answers to man's questions.
(d) Poetry.
5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Music.
(b) Triviality.
(c) Staging.
(d) Speech.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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."
2. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."
3. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
4. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
5. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?
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