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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 does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Sets will be elaborate.
(b) There will be no set.
(c) Sets will be period-specific.
(d) Sets will be made of fabric.

2. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

3. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Elaborate show.
(b) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(c) Ingenius disguise.
(d) Mass spectacle.

4. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "War."
(b) "Abdication."
(c) "Extraction."
(d) "Confession."

5. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Adequate.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every breath has how many kinds of time?

2. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?

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. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

5. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?

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