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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. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It exists on stage.
(b) It is real.
(c) It is abstract.
(d) It is anarchy.

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) American.
(b) Oriental.
(c) Australian.
(d) African.

3. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Cagliari.

4. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Psychological responses.
(b) Spiritual states.
(c) Gutteral reactions.
(d) God-like entities.

5. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) False.
(b) Poetic.
(c) True.
(d) Complete.

Short Answer Questions

1. Writing of language in his first manifesto, Artaud states, "It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have ______."

2. In his first manifesto, the author writes "Every spectacle will contain a physical and ______ element, perceptible to all."

3. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?

4. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?

5. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?

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