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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Insane.
(c) Rational.
(d) Boring.

3. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Acts.
(b) Dominates.
(c) Exists.
(d) Murders.

4. What does Artaud compare actors of the "current" theater to in "The Theater and Cruelty"?
(a) Artisans.
(b) Circus freaks.
(c) Puppets.
(d) Religious leaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

2. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

3. 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."

4. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

5. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?

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