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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 is proposed by the author as meant to shake up the foundations of civilization and culture as a whole?
(a) Theater of cruelty.
(b) Theater of gesture.
(c) Theater of shadows.
(d) Theater of meaning.

2. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Gold.
(d) Magic.

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

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Art.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Theater.

5. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) The magical.
(b) The supernatural.
(c) Daily life.
(d) The transcendent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

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

3. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

4. Artaud contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?

5. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

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