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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. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Jarry's.
(b) Nietzsche's.
(c) Racine's.
(d) Copeau's.

2. 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."
(a) Cruelty.
(b) The poetic state.
(c) A religious experience.
(d) Freedom.

3. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?
(a) Clamoring.
(b) Terror.
(c) Agitation.
(d) Sensation.

4. Artaud claims that it is certainly with his ____ that the actor thinks.
(a) Mind.
(b) Heart.
(c) Body.
(d) Breath.

5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Dramatic lie.
(b) Performed text.
(c) Poetic notion.
(d) Empty performance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

2. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

3. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."

4. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?

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

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