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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. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Cagliari.
(d) Amsterdam.

2. Artaud claims that it is certainly with his ____ that the actor thinks.
(a) Mind.
(b) Body.
(c) Heart.
(d) Breath.

3. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1720.

4. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.
(a) Current events.
(b) Dream sequences.
(c) Bible verses.
(d) Ancient myths.

5. What second film does Artaud mention in his first note of "Two Notes"?
(a) "Animal Crackers."
(b) "The Tramp."
(c) "The General."
(d) "Monkey Business."

Short Answer Questions

1. What film does the author discuss in his first note of "Two Notes"?

2. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?

3. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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