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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," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Triviality.
(b) Staging.
(c) Music.
(d) Speech.
2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Lucas van den Leyden.
(b) Andres Michaeleas.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Hans Vernswarth.
3. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud underlines the fact that _____ precede language.
(a) Truth.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Actions.
4. In his first letter of "Letters on Language," Artaud insists that the task of ______ must not be subordinated to spoken or written words as if this task was simply an accessory to theater."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Director.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Actor.
5. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.
(a) Dream sequences.
(b) Current events.
(c) Bible verses.
(d) Ancient myths.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
5. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?
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