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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. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

2. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
(a) Religion.
(b) Truth.
(c) Art.
(d) Civilization.

3. When did Artaud join the French Surrealists?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

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

5. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) In the minds of the gods.
(b) At the edge of the stage.
(c) At a distance.
(d) In the center of the spectacle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Artaud claims that it is certainly with his ____ that the actor thinks.

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 ____."

5. In what film did Artaud play the role of "Marat"?

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