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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?
(a) Movement.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Breath.
(d) Vibrations.

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

3. In his second note of "Two Notes," Artaud writes, "everything that is ______ is sacred and since his gestures are so beautiful that they take on a symbolic significance."
(a) Realistic.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Authentic.
(d) Symbolic.

4. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) Italian.
(b) Balinese.
(c) American.
(d) English.

5. In his last letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes "the desire characteristic of _____ is cruelty since it feeds upon contingencies."
(a) Eros.
(b) Lust.
(c) Athena.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

2. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?

3. The _____ apportions the human breath into six principal arcana.

4. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

5. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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