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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. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Create magic.
(b) Destroy everything.
(c) Permit language.
(d) Imbue poetry.

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

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Sardinia.
(c) Monte Blanc.
(d) Indonesia.

4. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) In the minds of the gods.
(b) At the edge of the stage.
(c) At a distance.
(d) In the center of the spectacle.

5. What does the author say of "Works" in his first manifesto?
(a) They will reinvent classics.
(b) They will elicit new playwrights.
(c) They will not perform written plays.
(d) They will perform classical plays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

2. What does Artaud compare actors of the "current" theater to in "The Theater and Cruelty"?

3. To whom does Artaud write his second letter of "Letters on Language"?

4. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

5. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."

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