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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) There will be no set.
(b) Sets will be period-specific.
(c) Sets will be made of fabric.
(d) Sets will be elaborate.

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

4. In "An Affective Athleticism," Artaud writes, "One must grant the actor a kind of affective musculature which corresponds to the physical localizations of ______."
(a) Thought.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Breath.
(d) Feelings.

5. What does Artaud assert is the principle concern of the actor physically?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Strength.
(c) Physique.
(d) Breath.

6. What does Artaud intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Raise it.
(b) Light it on fire.
(c) Put barriers around it.
(d) Abolish it.

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

8. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?
(a) Sacred texts.
(b) Actors.
(c) Proscenium staging.
(d) Directors.

9. Who, in addition to Shakespeare and Aeschylus does Artaud refer to as a great classicist in his "Letters on Language"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Racine.
(d) Euripides.

10. In "An Affective Athleticism," the author writes, "The actor is an athlete of the ____."
(a) Body.
(b) Heart.
(c) Soul.
(d) Mind.

11. In what year were the letters dated from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1938.

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

13. Artaud writes in his Second Manifesto that he plans to "renounce the theatrical superstition of the text and the _______ of the writer."
(a) Homage.
(b) Worship.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Leadership.

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

15. Of the word "cruelty," Artaud writes in his letters that the word represents "irreversible and absolute" what?
(a) Loathing.
(b) Rage.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Determination.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his last letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud says that in fact, the theater he is defining has to assume another _____ in order to function.

2. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

3. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

4. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?

5. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?

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