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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. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Magic.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Gesture.
2. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?
(a) It resurrects tortured gods.
(b) Its basis is that of pain.
(c) It aims to redeem mankind.
(d) It attacks the foundation of culture.
3. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Hyroglyphs.
(c) Poems.
(d) Gods.
4. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Five months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.
5. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(b) Elaborate show.
(c) Mass spectacle.
(d) Ingenius disguise.
Short Answer Questions
1. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
2. Artaud claims that it is certainly with his ____ that the actor thinks.
3. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
4. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?
5. 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."
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