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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. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Theater.
(d) Art.

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

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Destroy everything.
(b) Imbue poetry.
(c) Create magic.
(d) Permit language.

4. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Performance.
(b) Director.
(c) Actor.
(d) Mise en scene.

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) True understanding.
(b) Answers to man's questions.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

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

4. 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."

5. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?

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