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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in addition to Shakespeare and Aeschylus does Artaud refer to as a great classicist in his "Letters on Language"?
(a) Racine.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Euripides.

2. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) As objects and part of the set.
(b) As invisible.
(c) As external objects.
(d) As characters.

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

4. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud describes the themes for the Theater of Cruelty as based on the ________ of ancient civilizations from all over the world.
(a) Theater.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Religions.
(d) Sacred texts.

5. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Director.
(b) Stage.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.

2. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

3. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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

5. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

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