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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. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Beast.
(b) Monster.
(c) Puppet.
(d) Parent.

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

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The magical.
(b) The supernatural.
(c) The transcendent.
(d) Daily life.

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) L'amour.
(b) Rioutet.
(c) Jouissis.
(d) Esprit.

5. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Swine.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Cows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

2. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?

3. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?

4. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

5. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

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