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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, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Actor.
(b) Performance.
(c) Director.
(d) Mise en scene.

2. In his first letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud claims that "it is understood that life is always" what?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Bloodshed.
(c) Someone's death.
(d) Murder.

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

4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Guggenheim.
(b) The Museum of Modern Art.
(c) The Pantheon.
(d) The Louvre.

5. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Expression.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Action.
(d) Emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

2. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

3. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?

4. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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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