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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IX. Letters on Cruelty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Tragic actor."
(b) "Director."
(c) "Poet."
(d) "Comedian."

4. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.
(a) Raison d'etre.
(b) Mais de scene.
(c) Dictator.
(d) Metteur en scène.

5. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Subliminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."

3. In his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes, "I do not systematically cultivate _____."

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

5. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

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