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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 suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Singing.

2. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Acts.
(b) Exists.
(c) Dominates.
(d) Murders.

3. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?
(a) Ungodly.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Transcendental.
(d) Material.

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

5. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Spiritual states.
(b) Gutteral reactions.
(c) God-like entities.
(d) Psychological responses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?

2. In his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

5. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

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