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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. Metaphysics and the Mise en Scène.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?
(a) Oriental theater.
(b) African theater.
(c) American theater.
(d) Occidental theater.

2. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Sicily.

3. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Order.
(c) Love.
(d) Civilization.

4. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Speaking quietly.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Incantation.
(d) Singing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."

2. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

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

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. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

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