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

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

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

4. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Tribal rites.
(c) Renewed exorcisms.
(d) Religious ecstacy.

5. In his second letter of "Letters on Language," Artaud states that he finds the duality between author and _____ in the context of theater totally absurd, since there should be no difference between them."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Actor.
(c) Stage manager.
(d) Director.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. To whom does Artaud write his second letter of "Letters on Language"?

5. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Artaud defines the images and movement of the "Theater of Cruelty" in his second manifesto.

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

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

5. What movie does Artaud use in comparison to his main subject in the first note of "Two Notes"? What does he write of American filmmakers?

6. What must the actor control in order to relate emotions he wants to convey?

7. What does Artaud write in his "Letters on Language" regarding the psychology of characters?

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

9. Discuss and describe Artaud's depiction of lighting for the Theater of Cruelty in the First Manifesto.

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

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