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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. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The director.
(b) The actor.
(c) The audience.
(d) The set designer.

2. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Hans Vernswarth.
(b) Lucas van den Leyden.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Andres Michaeleas.

3. This is a perversion of theater to represent psychological and social conflicts and daily life, simply because the object of theater is not psychological but rather plastic and essentially what?
(a) Material.
(b) Transcendental.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Ungodly.

4. The author says that the problem at the heart of Occidental theater is that western art and culture systematically confuse art with what?
(a) Aestheticism.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Knowlege.
(d) Ignorance.

5. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Gold.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.

2. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."

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

4. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

5. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".

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