The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Theater and Its Double Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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. 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) Men.
(c) Gods.
(d) Insects.

2. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
(a) Have no taste.
(b) Are uncouth.
(c) Smell bad.
(d) Are barbaric.

3. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," the author writes, "if we restrict theater to what happens between cues, we have still not managed to separate it from the idea of a ________."
(a) Empty performance.
(b) Dramatic lie.
(c) Poetic notion.
(d) Performed text.

4. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Beauty and language.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Religious and mystic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

3. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

5. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

(see the answer key)

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