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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XI. The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The museum.
(b) The stage.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

2. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Hyroglyphs.
(c) Gods.
(d) Poems.

3. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Emotions.
(b) God.
(c) Reality.
(d) Love.

4. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Guggenheim.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Pantheon.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

5. In his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?
(a) Ethiopian Ras.
(b) Colonizers.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Egyptian kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

2. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

3. Artaud claims that if the theater fails to successfully reproduce the works of the great classics, it is because we have lost the sense of their theater's what?

4. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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