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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. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Destroy everything.
(b) Create magic.
(c) Imbue poetry.
(d) Permit language.

2. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Racine.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Zola.

3. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Matthew's Assassination.
(b) Fleur de Lis.
(c) Daughters of Lot.
(d) Rushing Water.

4. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Cagliari.

5. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?
(a) Renewed exorcisms.
(b) Tribal rites.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Religious ecstacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

2. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

3. 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."

4. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

5. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?

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