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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. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) True understanding.
(b) Absolute and abstract purity.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Answers to man's questions.

2. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?
(a) Sacred texts.
(b) Proscenium staging.
(c) Directors.
(d) Actors.

3. In his first manifesto, the author writes "Every spectacle will contain a physical and ______ element, perceptible to all."
(a) Objective.
(b) Analytical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Subjective.

4. 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?
(a) True gesture.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Musical contribution.
(d) Old language and forms of expression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?

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

3. 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."

4. 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?

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?

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