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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. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Empty performance.
(b) Dramatic lie.
(c) Poetic notion.
(d) Performed text.

2. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud underlines the fact that _____ precede language.
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Truth.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Actions.

3. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1900.

4. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Peeping Toms.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Idiots.

5. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) "Final Ship."
(b) "Blast of Cannons."
(c) "Evil Awaits."
(d) "Warning Signs."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."

3. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

5. 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?

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