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

2. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
(a) Exists.
(b) Dominates.
(c) Murders.
(d) Acts.

3. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Five months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six years.

4. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Ritual.

5. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The audience.
(b) The set designer.
(c) The director.
(d) The actor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

3. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

4. 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 ________."

5. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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