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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 his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?
(a) Egyptian kings.
(b) Nazis.
(c) Colonizers.
(d) Ethiopian Ras.

2. 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) Ancient myths.
(c) Bible verses.
(d) Dream sequences.

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The supernatural.
(b) The magical.
(c) The transcendent.
(d) Daily life.

4. What did the performer replicate in the production Artaud speaks of in his second note of "Two Notes"?
(a) A centaur-horse.
(b) A bear.
(c) A bull.
(d) A unicorn.

5. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Pancreas and heart.
(b) Kidneys and lungs.
(c) Heart and gall bladder.
(d) Brain and lungs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the "Theater of Cruelty" considered cruel by Artaud?

2. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

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

4. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

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

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