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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XII. An Affective Athleticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Cows.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Swine.

3. What does Artaud claim that the approach of psychological theater is?
(a) Insane.
(b) Rational.
(c) Boring.
(d) Absurd.

4. 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?
(a) Are barbaric.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Are uncouth.
(d) Have no taste.

5. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Gesture.
(c) Magic.
(d) Introspection.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

2. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."

3. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

4. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."

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

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