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

2. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Emotions.
(b) Reality.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

3. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?
(a) Agitation.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Terror.
(d) Clamoring.

4. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Have no taste.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Are barbaric.
(d) Are uncouth.

5. 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) Artistry.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Mechanization.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

2. 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"?

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

4. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

5. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

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