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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Artaud, what the athlete depends upon in ______ is what the actor depends upon in shouting a passionate curse.
(a) Fighting.
(b) Throwing.
(c) Running.
(d) Catching.

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

3. What is the name of the third act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Redemption."
(b) "Convulsions."
(c) "War Cry."
(d) "Confession."

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

5. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?
(a) Proscenium staging.
(b) Actors.
(c) Sacred texts.
(d) Directors.

6. In "An Affective Athleticism," Artaud writes, "To make use of his emotions as a wrestler makes use of his muscles, he has to see the human being as a ______."
(a) Mime.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Double.
(d) Truth.

7. Artaud claims that the lighting equipment now in use would no longer be what for the Theater of Cruelty?
(a) Realistic.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Adequate.

8. In his second letter from "Letters on Language," Artaud states, "My plays have nothing to do with ______ improvisations."
(a) Jarry's.
(b) Nietzsche's.
(c) Copeau's.
(d) Racine's.

9. Of the word "cruelty," Artaud writes in his letters that the word represents "irreversible and absolute" what?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Loathing.
(c) Rage.
(d) Determination.

10. Artaud claims in his Second Manifesto that the Theater of Cruelty will "stage events, not ____."
(a) Wars.
(b) Trivial matters.
(c) Life.
(d) Men.

11. In Artaud's Second Manifesto, he describes the spectacle itself as being formed along the lines of _________ which will be materialized in gestures and movement before decaying into sounds and words.
(a) Current events.
(b) Dream sequences.
(c) Ancient myths.
(d) Bible verses.

12. The _____ apportions the human breath into six principal arcana.
(a) Bible.
(b) Hindu priest.
(c) Cabala.
(d) Medical journal.

13. What is the name of the final act of Artaud's proposed production?
(a) "Extraction."
(b) "Confession."
(c) "Abdication."
(d) "War."

14. What does Artaud write in his first letter of "Letters on Cruelty" that he cannot reveal the particulars of?
(a) His play.
(b) His Manifesto.
(c) His concept.
(d) His poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his Second Manifesto, Artaud writes that "the Theater of Cruelty will address itself only to _____ man.

2. Every breath has how many kinds of time?

3. Artaud claims in his first letter of "Letters on Language" that while it still qualifies as "theater," a play which depends entirely on a scripted text is nothing but a _____ of theater.

4. What did the performer replicate in the production Artaud speaks of in his second note of "Two Notes"?

5. Who appears with his men like giants alongside their tiny vessels in Act 1 of Artaud's proposed production?

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