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. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) Esprit.
(b) Jouissis.
(c) L'amour.
(d) Rioutet.

2. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is abstract.
(b) It exists on stage.
(c) It is real.
(d) It is anarchy.

3. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Pantheon.
(b) The Guggenheim.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

4. What is the mise en scene composed of?
(a) Everything around production.
(b) Psychological awareness.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Acting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?

2. 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 ________."

3. 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 ____."

4. 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."

5. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

(see the answer key)

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