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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. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) Italian.
(b) American.
(c) Balinese.
(d) English.

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Permit language.
(b) Destroy everything.
(c) Create magic.
(d) Imbue poetry.

3. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Poems.
(b) Gods.
(c) Hyroglyphs.
(d) Emotions.

4. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Director."
(b) "Tragic actor."
(c) "Poet."
(d) "Comedian."

5. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.
(a) Oriental.
(b) Mexican.
(c) African.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

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

3. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?

4. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?

5. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."

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