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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. "What voluntary breathing provokes is a spontaneous reappearance" of what?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) Fear.
(d) Emotion.

2. What film does the author discuss in his first note of "Two Notes"?
(a) "Monkey Business."
(b) "Cinema Paradisimo."
(c) "Animal Crackers."
(d) "The Tramp."

3. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Monte Blanc.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Sardinia.

4. 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) Magic.
(b) Mind.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Science.

5. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his last letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes "the desire characteristic of _____ is cruelty since it feeds upon contingencies."

2. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

3. Artaud writes, "Cruelty is above all lucid, a kind of rigid control and submission to ______."

4. Where did Artaud begin his experiments with the theater?

5. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?

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