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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What film does the author discuss in his first note of "Two Notes"?
(a) "Animal Crackers."
(b) "The Tramp."
(c) "Cinema Paradisimo."
(d) "Monkey Business."

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

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

6. In his first manifesto, the author writes "Every spectacle will contain a physical and ______ element, perceptible to all."
(a) Subjective.
(b) Analytical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Objective.

7. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Racine.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Zola.

8. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Exists.
(b) Dominates.
(c) Murders.
(d) Acts.

9. In his third letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states that he never meant for cruelty to be used sporadically, but rather as the _____ of his theater."
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Property.
(c) Foundation.
(d) Accoutrement.

10. Artaud claims that if the theater fails to successfully reproduce the works of the great classics, it is because we have lost the sense of their theater's what?
(a) Physics.
(b) Language.
(c) Importance.
(d) Dynamic.

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

12. What is the title of the second note Artaud writes in "Two Notes"?
(a) "Monkey Business."
(b) "Animal Crackers."
(c) "Autour D'une Mère."
(d) "Thoughts on Film."

13. 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) Art.
(d) Film.

14. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) "Blast of Cannons."
(b) "Final Ship."
(c) "Warning Signs."
(d) "Evil Awaits."

15. "When the poetic spirit is exercised, it always leads toward a kind of boiling ______, an essential disintegration of the real by poetry."
(a) Dissimilation.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Redemption.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third act of Artaud's proposed production?

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

3. 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."

4. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

5. 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.

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