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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. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Behavior.
(c) Letters.
(d) Thoughts.

2. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Mme. Richeliou.
(b) J.P.
(c) Aguste Francois.
(d) M. R. de R.

3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?
(a) Reinvent it.
(b) Read it and throw it away.
(c) Redevelop it.
(d) Maintain it.

4. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Theater of meaning.
(c) Theater of shadows.
(d) Theater of gesture.

5. Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer."
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Worship.
(c) Homage.
(d) Leadership.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

2. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

3. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?

4. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

5. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

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