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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Abdication."
(b) "Extraction."
(c) "Confession."
(d) "War."

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

3. Of whose performance does Artaud write in his second note of "Two Notes"?
(a) Buster Keaton.
(b) The Marx Brothers.
(c) Jean-Louis Barrault.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

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) Sanity.
(b) Breath.
(c) Thought.
(d) Feelings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were the letters dated from "Letters on Cruelty"?

2. The author claims that actors in France no longer "know how to do anything but" what?

3. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.

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

5. In his second letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud refers to what as being in a sense of constant creation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the differences the author notes between the athlete and the actor?

2. What does Artaud describe "cruelty" in reference to in his letters?

3. What does Artaud write of in his third letter of "Letters on Language," which follows the publication of his Manifesto?

4. What is Artaud's subject of his second note in "Two Notes"?

5. Discuss Artaud's feelings about the cinema as he describes them in "The Theater of Cruelty."

6. Discuss how Artaud's time and place impact his vision of the theater.

7. Who is Hieronymous Bosch and why does Artaud write about him in "The Theater of Cruelty"?

8. Discuss the themes and content of the "Theater of Cruelty" based on the second manifesto. What is the spectacle like?

9. How does Artaud describe what "cruelty" is not referring to in his letters?

10. In Artaud's first letter in "Letters on Cruelty," who is he writing to and what is his principle subject?

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