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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. To whom does the author address the first letter in "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) Mme. Richeliou.
(b) J. P.
(c) Jean Racine.
(d) Alexander Pierre.

2. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Music.
(b) Speech.
(c) Staging.
(d) Triviality.

3. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) In the center of the spectacle.
(b) In the minds of the gods.
(c) At a distance.
(d) At the edge of the stage.

4. In what year were the letters dated from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1911.

5. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
(a) Science.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Mechanization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first act of Artaud's proposed production for the Theater of Cruelty?

2. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

3. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

4. To what does Artaud compare the ability of the theater's "magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether"?

5. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.

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