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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) Proscenium staging.
(b) Directors.
(c) Actors.
(d) Sacred texts.

2. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Magic.
(c) Vocal tones.
(d) Gestures.

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

4. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Permit language.
(b) Destroy everything.
(c) Create magic.
(d) Imbue poetry.

5. Artaud writes, "Cruelty is above all lucid, a kind of rigid control and submission to ______."
(a) Necessity.
(b) Love.
(c) Furor.
(d) Anguish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the word "cruelty," Artaud writes in his letters that the word represents "irreversible and absolute" what?

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."

3. To whom does the author address the first letter in "Letters on Cruelty"?

4. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.

5. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

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