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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. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?
(a) "The Ends of Time."
(b) "The Spanist Conquistador."
(c) "The Conquest of Mexico."
(d) "David and Goliath."

2. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) Old language and forms of expression.
(b) Musical contribution.
(c) Poetry.
(d) True gesture.

3. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Parent.
(b) Beast.
(c) Puppet.
(d) Monster.

4. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Extraction."
(b) "Confession."
(c) "Abdication."
(d) "War."

5. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Religion.
(b) Obscurity.
(c) Physical language.
(d) Code.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

4. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?

5. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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