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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. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.
(a) Throwing.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Running.
(d) Catching.

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

3. Writing of language in his first manifesto, Artaud states, "It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have ______."
(a) In tribal rites.
(b) In physicality.
(c) In movies.
(d) In dreams.

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

5. What is the "distinct poetic state of mind" which Artaud terms for the film he discusses in "Two Notes"?
(a) Realism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Absurdism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. In "An Affective Athleticism," the author writes, "The actor is an athlete of the ____."

3. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?

4. "What voluntary breathing provokes is a spontaneous reappearance" of what?

5. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the different types of breathing the author refers to?

2. What is Artaud's approach to the audience in the theater of cruelty?

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

4. What is Artaud's subject in his first note from "Two Notes"?

5. How does Artaud describe the correlation between actions and language in his "Letters on Language"?

6. What physically must an actor learn to localize in his body?

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

8. In Artaud's "Letters on Language," he insists that the task of "mise en scène" must not be subordinated to spoken or written words as if this task was simply an accessory to theater. What does this mean?

9. Discuss the use of masks and accessories as described in the First Manifesto.

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

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