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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his first manifesto, Artaud claims that the first thing to notice about theater is that it only expresses itself in ______.
(a) Love.
(b) Time.
(c) Space.
(d) Life.

2. Of whose performance does Artaud write in his second note of "Two Notes"?
(a) Buster Keaton.
(b) The Marx Brothers.
(c) Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Jean-Louis Barrault.

3. Who, in addition to Shakespeare and Aeschylus does Artaud refer to as a great classicist in his "Letters on Language"?
(a) Racine.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Sophocles.

4. What is the title of the second note Artaud writes in "Two Notes"?
(a) "Animal Crackers."
(b) "Autour D'une Mère."
(c) "Thoughts on Film."
(d) "Monkey Business."

5. What is the name of the second act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Redemption."
(b) "Confession."
(c) "Salvation."
(d) "Extraction."

6. What will be avoided in terms of costuming in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Modern dress.
(b) Renaissance apparel.
(c) Asian-inspired costumes.
(d) Masks.

7. Artaud claims in his first manifesto that Occidental theater should look at _____ theater for inspiration.
(a) Mexican.
(b) African.
(c) Oriental.
(d) American.

8. What film does the author discuss in his first note of "Two Notes"?
(a) "Animal Crackers."
(b) "The Tramp."
(c) "Monkey Business."
(d) "Cinema Paradisimo."

9. In his first letter of "Letters on Language," Artaud insists that the task of ______ must not be subordinated to spoken or written words as if this task was simply an accessory to theater."
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Actor.
(c) Director.
(d) Playwright.

10. In "An Affective Athleticism," Artaud writes, "One must grant the actor a kind of affective musculature which corresponds to the physical localizations of ______."
(a) Thought.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Breath.
(d) Sanity.

11. What does Artaud intend to do with the stage in the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Put barriers around it.
(b) Abolish it.
(c) Light it on fire.
(d) Raise it.

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

13. Artaud claims that the psychological theater descended from whom?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Zola.
(d) Racine.

14. To whom does the author write his third letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
(a) M.R. de R.
(b) Mme. Richeliou.
(c) J.P.
(d) Aguste Francois.

15. Artaud writes, "At the point of deterioration which our sensibility has reached, it is certain that we need above all a theater that _________."
(a) Enables us.
(b) Wakes us up.
(c) Frightens us.
(d) Enrages us.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."

2. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?

3. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?

4. "The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of" what, according to the author?

5. The author claims that actors in France no longer "know how to do anything but" what?

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