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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. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Matthew's Assassination.
(b) Rushing Water.
(c) Daughters of Lot.
(d) Fleur de Lis.

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

3. What is the mise en scene composed of?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Psychological awareness.
(c) Everything around production.
(d) Acting.

4. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The museum.
(b) The past.
(c) The stage.
(d) The future.

5. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Aguste Francois.
(b) Mme. Richeliou.
(c) J.P.
(d) M. R. de R.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?

2. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?

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

4. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

5. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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