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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. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."
(a) Trivial matters.
(b) Men.
(c) Life.
(d) Wars.

2. What does Artaud accuse the "current" theater of turning its public into?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Peeping Toms.
(d) Idiots.

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

4. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Structure.
(c) Suspension of disbelief.
(d) Lie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, "Our long habit of seeking _____ has made us forget the idea of a serious theater."

2. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?

3. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?

4. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?

5. 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."

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