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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. Oriental and Occidental Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Heart and gall bladder.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Kidneys and lungs.
(d) Brain and lungs.

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

3. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?
(a) Auteur de theatre.
(b) Mise en scene.
(c) Metteur en scène.
(d) Raison d'etre.

4. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Andres Michaeleas.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Lucas van den Leyden.
(d) Hans Vernswarth.

5. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Africa.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Beirut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

2. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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 writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

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