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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 contends that the separation of life and theater, where the latter is but a mirror image of the former, is inherently what?
(a) Complete.
(b) False.
(c) Poetic.
(d) True.

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

3. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Order.
(b) Performance.
(c) Language.
(d) Reason.

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

5. In "Oriental and Occidental Theater," Artaud writes, "It is not a matter of suppressing _____ in the theater but of changing its role, and especially of reducing its position."
(a) Speech.
(b) Staging.
(c) Triviality.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Artaud say diminishes the value of the theater?

3. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

4. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

5. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

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