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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Swine.
(c) Cats.
(d) Cows.

2. What does Artaud intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Abolish it.
(b) Raise it.
(c) Put barriers around it.
(d) Light it on fire.

3. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Africa.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Beirut.

4. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Monsters.
(b) Men.
(c) Gods.
(d) Insects.

5. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Religion.
(b) Code.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Physical language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

2. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?

3. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?

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