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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI. No More Masterpieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Gods.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Poems.
(d) Hyroglyphs.

2. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Physical language.
(b) Religion.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Code.

3. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."
(a) Monsters.
(b) Insects.
(c) Gods.
(d) Men.

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

5. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The museum.
(b) The future.
(c) The stage.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

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

5. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

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