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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Peeping Toms.
(b) Idiots.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Slaves.

2. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Ingenius disguise.
(b) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(c) Mass spectacle.
(d) Elaborate show.

3. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.
(a) Time.
(b) Love.
(c) Space.
(d) Life.

4. To whom is Artaud's first letter in "Letters on Language"?
(a) J.P.
(b) Aguste Francois.
(c) M. R. de R.
(d) M.B.C.

5. In his first letter of "Letters on Language," Artaud insists that the task of ______ must not be subordinated to spoken or written words as if this task was simply an accessory to theater."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Director.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Actor.

6. In his first letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud writes "It seems, in brief, that the highest possible idea of the theater is one that reconciles us philosophically with _____."
(a) Becoming.
(b) Death.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Life.

7. 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) Freedom.
(b) The poetic state.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) A religious experience.

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

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

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

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

12. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Asian-inspired costumes.
(b) Masks.
(c) Renaissance apparel.
(d) Modern dress.

13. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Hurez.
(c) D'Ablo.
(d) Cortez.

14. In his second note of "Two Notes," Artaud writes, "everything that is ______ is sacred and since his gestures are so beautiful that they take on a symbolic significance."
(a) Authentic.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Surreal.

15. 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) Dream sequences.
(b) Bible verses.
(c) Ancient myths.
(d) Current events.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Every breath has how many kinds of time?

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

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

5. What did the performer replicate in the production Artaud speaks of in his second note of "Two Notes"?

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