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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In his last letter from "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes "the desire characteristic of _____ is cruelty since it feeds upon contingencies."
(a) Power.
(b) Athena.
(c) Eros.
(d) Lust.

4. 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) Life.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Death.
(d) Becoming.

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

6. What second film does Artaud mention in his first note of "Two Notes"?
(a) "Monkey Business."
(b) "Animal Crackers."
(c) "The Tramp."
(d) "The General."

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

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

9. In his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes, "I do not systematically cultivate _____."
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Horror.
(c) Fear.
(d) Bloodshed.

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

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

12. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."
(a) Wakes us up.
(b) Enrages us.
(c) Enables us.
(d) Frightens us.

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

14. 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.

15. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?
(a) Heart.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Senses.
(d) Body.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?

4. To whom does the author address the second letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?

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

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