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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. On the Balinese Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) African.
(d) Southern.

2. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Magic.
(d) Gold.

3. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Vocal tones.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Magic.
(d) Gestures.

4. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Actor.
(b) Performance.
(c) Director.
(d) Mise en scene.

5. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Marx Brothers.
(b) Abbott and Costello.
(c) Lucy and Desi.
(d) Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

2. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?

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

4. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

5. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

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