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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. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?
(a) Actors.
(b) Directors.
(c) Music.
(d) Classic texts.

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

3. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Science.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Magic.
(d) Mind.

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

5. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Elaborate show.
(b) Mass spectacle.
(c) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(d) Ingenius disguise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

2. 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.

3. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

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

5. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

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