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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every breath has how many kinds of time?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

2. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?
(a) Music.
(b) Theater.
(c) Art.
(d) Film.

3. Artaud writes, "Cruelty is above all lucid, a kind of rigid control and submission to ______."
(a) Anguish.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Love.
(d) Furor.

4. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) M. R. de R.
(b) Aguste Francois.
(c) J.P.
(d) Mme. Richeliou.

5. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.
(a) Fighting.
(b) Catching.
(c) Throwing.
(d) Running.

6. Of the performer in Artaud's second note, he writes, "His spectacle demonstrates the irresistible expressiveness of" what?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Gesture.
(c) The breath.
(d) The mind.

7. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud writes that "the Theater of Cruelty will address itself only to _____ man.
(a) Ancient.
(b) Total.
(c) Modern.
(d) Subconscious.

8. Artaud claims in his first letter of "Letters on Language" that while it still qualifies as "theater," a play which depends entirely on a scripted text is nothing but a _____ of theater.
(a) Imitation.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Bad attempt.
(d) Perversion.

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

10. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Racine's.
(b) Jarry's.
(c) Copeau's.
(d) Nietzsche's.

11. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.
(a) African.
(b) Mexican.
(c) American.
(d) Oriental.

12. The first line of Artaud's Second Manifesto, states, "Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, _________, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection."
(a) The poetic state.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) A religious experience.

13. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) As invisible.
(b) As characters.
(c) As objects and part of the set.
(d) As external objects.

14. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "War."
(b) "Abdication."
(c) "Extraction."
(d) "Confession."

15. In his first letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud claims that "it is understood that life is always" what?
(a) Someone's death.
(b) Murder.
(c) Bloodshed.
(d) Cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes, "I do not systematically cultivate _____."

2. What does Artaud say has "maintained us for ten years in an ineffectual torpor"?

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

4. To whom does the author write his third letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?

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

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