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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 does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) African.
(d) Southern.

2. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud underlines the fact that _____ precede language.
(a) Truth.
(b) Actions.
(c) Spectacle.
(d) Mise en scene.

3. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Reality.
(b) Love.
(c) God.
(d) Emotions.

4. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Auteur de theatre.
(c) Metteur en scène.
(d) Raison d'etre.

5. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Are barbaric.
(b) Have no taste.
(c) Smell bad.
(d) Are uncouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the second note Artaud writes in "Two Notes"?

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

3. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

4. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.

5. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?

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