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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 the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."
(a) Unwilling.
(b) Incapable.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Justified.
2. What does Artaud intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Raise it.
(b) Put barriers around it.
(c) Abolish it.
(d) Light it on fire.
3. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."
(a) The civilization.
(b) The universe.
(c) The gods.
(d) The religious.
4. 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) Monster.
(b) Puppet.
(c) Beast.
(d) Parent.
5. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Renaissance apparel.
(b) Modern dress.
(c) Masks.
(d) Asian-inspired costumes.
Short Answer Questions
1. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."
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?
3. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
4. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
5. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
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