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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. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Artistry.
(d) Science.

2. To whom does the author address the first letter in "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Alexander Pierre.
(b) Mme. Richeliou.
(c) J. P.
(d) Jean Racine.

3. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Behavior.
(d) Letters.

4. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Religious and mystic.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Beauty and language.

5. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Renaissance apparel.
(b) Modern dress.
(c) Asian-inspired costumes.
(d) Masks.

Short Answer Questions

1. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?

2. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

3. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."

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

5. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

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