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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Memoriam: Antonin Artaud By Maurice Saillet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first example Artaud writes the Theater of Cruelty will undertake?
(a) "The Spanist Conquistador."
(b) "David and Goliath."
(c) "The Ends of Time."
(d) "The Conquest of Mexico."

2. How does Artaud claim musical instruments will be treated in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) As external objects.
(b) As objects and part of the set.
(c) As invisible.
(d) As characters.

3. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Music.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Gesture.

4. With what director/actor did Artaud work with, as mentioned in "In Memoriam"?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Capeau.
(c) Racine.
(d) Dullin.

5. In his second note of "Two Notes," the author writes "When an atmosphere is so transformed that a hostile audience is suddenly and blindly immersed and invincibly disarmed, it must be hailed as _____."
(a) An event.
(b) A success.
(c) A truth.
(d) A transformation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the second note Artaud writes in "Two Notes"?

2. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

3. In his last letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud says that in fact, the theater he is defining has to assume another _____ in order to function.

4. The _____ apportions the human breath into six principal arcana.

5. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

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