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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. Artaud believes that theater should be the art of creating a higher meaning that cannot be what?
(a) Repeated.
(b) Glorified.
(c) Vilified.
(d) Abandoned.

2. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Poems.
(b) Gods.
(c) Hyroglyphs.
(d) Emotions.

3. What does Artaud write of the set for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) There will be no set.
(b) Sets will be made of fabric.
(c) Sets will be elaborate.
(d) Sets will be period-specific.

4. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Monte Blanc.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Sardinia.

5. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.
(a) Time.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Space.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

4. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.

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

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