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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 is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) One year.
(b) Five months.
(c) Six years.
(d) Five years.

2. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(b) Saint-Remys.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Calgiari.

3. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Poetics.

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

5. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A mask.
(b) An actor.
(c) A god.
(d) A disaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

2. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

3. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

5. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

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