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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III. The Alchemical Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Indonesia.
(b) Sardinia.
(c) Monte Blanc.
(d) Greenland.

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) American.
(b) Oriental.
(c) African.
(d) Australian.

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

4. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Orphic Mysteries.
(b) The Dionysian stories.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Metamorphoses.

5. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."

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

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