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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Realistic.
(b) Adequate.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Abstract.

6. The author claims that actors in France no longer "know how to do anything but" what?
(a) Bore.
(b) Stand.
(c) Talk.
(d) Sing.

7. 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) Surreal.
(b) Authentic.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Realistic.

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

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

10. 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.
(a) Civilization.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Theme.
(d) Definition.

11. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?
(a) Movement.
(b) Breath.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Vibrations.

12. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Nietzsche's.
(b) Jarry's.
(c) Copeau's.
(d) Racine's.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud describes the themes for the Theater of Cruelty as based on the ________ of ancient civilizations from all over the world.

2. What second film does Artaud mention in his first note of "Two Notes"?

3. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.

4. 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."

5. In "An Affective Athleticism," Artaud writes, "One must grant the actor a kind of affective musculature which corresponds to the physical localizations of ______."

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