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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 suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(b) A world of artistic vision.
(c) Heaven and Hell.
(d) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.

2. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) D'Ablo.
(b) Hurez.
(c) Cortez.
(d) Napoleon.

3. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Stagnant.
(b) Subliminal.
(c) Virtual.
(d) Transcient.

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

5. According to Artaud, where does the great public look to along with the music hall or the circus for violent satisfactions?
(a) The movies.
(b) Television.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The opera.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

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. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?

5. Artaud intends his theater to to seek in the what of tremendous masses?

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