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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. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
(a) Gestures.
(b) Vibrations.
(c) Words.
(d) Music.

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Auteur de theatre.
(b) Raison d'etre.
(c) Metteur en scène.
(d) Mise en scene.

3. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?
(a) They will reinvent classics.
(b) They will not perform written plays.
(c) They will perform classical plays.
(d) They will elicit new playwrights.

4. In his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes, "I do not systematically cultivate _____."
(a) Fear.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Horror.
(d) Bloodshed.

5. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The spiritual.
(b) The metaphysical.
(c) The music.
(d) The realistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his third letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states that he never meant for cruelty to be used sporadically, but rather as the _____ of his theater."

2. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

3. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

5. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

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