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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. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Director.
(b) Actor.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Performance.
2. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Gold.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Magic.
(d) Chemicals.
3. 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 ________."
(a) Empty performance.
(b) Poetic notion.
(c) Dramatic lie.
(d) Performed text.
4. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?
(a) American theater.
(b) African theater.
(c) Occidental theater.
(d) Oriental theater.
5. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) An actor.
(c) A play.
(d) A scene.
Short Answer Questions
1. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
2. 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."
3. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."
4. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
5. Artaud writes, "Cruelty is above all lucid, a kind of rigid control and submission to ______."
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