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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Distraction.
(b) Bad attempt.
(c) Perversion.
(d) Imitation.

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

3. "What voluntary breathing provokes is a spontaneous reappearance" of what?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Life.
(c) Fear.
(d) Death.

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

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

6. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?
(a) "The Ends of Time."
(b) "The Spanist Conquistador."
(c) "David and Goliath."
(d) "The Conquest of Mexico."

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

8. What is the first note titled in "Two Notes"?
(a) "The Last Motion Picture Show."
(b) "The Marx Brothers."
(c) "Thoughts on Film."
(d) "Monkey Business."

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

10. To whom does Artaud write his second letter of "Letters on Language"?
(a) Auguste Francois.
(b) M.B.C.
(c) J.P.
(d) M. R. de R.

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

12. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?
(a) His concept.
(b) His play.
(c) His Manifesto.
(d) His poetry.

13. 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) Dynamic.
(b) Physics.
(c) Importance.
(d) Language.

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

15. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?
(a) Terror.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Clamoring.
(d) Agitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. "When the poetic spirit is exercised, it always leads toward a kind of boiling ______, an essential disintegration of the real by poetry."

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

3. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?

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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