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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 does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Dionysian stories.
(b) The Orphic Mysteries.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

2. 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."
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Freedom.
(c) A religious experience.
(d) The poetic state.

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

4. 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.
(a) Bible verses.
(b) Current events.
(c) Ancient myths.
(d) Dream sequences.

5. 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.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Sacred texts.
(c) Religions.
(d) Theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third act of Artaud's proposed production?

2. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?

3. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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

5. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?

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