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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XII. An Affective Athleticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud claims that the public thinks first of all with its what?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Senses.
(c) Body.
(d) Heart.

2. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) Hurez.
(b) D'Ablo.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Cortez.

3. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Singing.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Poetry.

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 ____."
(a) Mind.
(b) Science.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Magic.

5. According to Artaud, "the Theater of Cruelty proposes to resort to a" what?
(a) Bloodshed of enormous proportions.
(b) Ingenius disguise.
(c) Mass spectacle.
(d) Elaborate show.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?

2. What does Artaud intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?

3. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

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."

5. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?

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