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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 writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Subliminal.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Transcient.
(d) Virtual.

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Lucas van den Leyden.
(c) Andres Michaeleas.
(d) Hans Vernswarth.

3. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Art.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Theater.

4. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?
(a) Television.
(b) The zoo.
(c) The movies.
(d) The opera.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. 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?

3. According to the author, "Our long habit of seeking _____ has made us forget the idea of a serious theater."

4. What does Artaud compare actors of the "current" theater to in "The Theater and Cruelty"?

5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."

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