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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IX. Letters on Cruelty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Speaking quietly.
(b) Incantation.
(c) Singing.
(d) Poetry.

2. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Peeping Toms.
(c) Idiots.
(d) Slaves.

3. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Love.
(c) Nature.
(d) Order.

4. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Paris.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Rome.

5. 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"?
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) An actor.
(c) A play.
(d) A scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?

2. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

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

4. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

5. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

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