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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Expression.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Action.

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

4. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.
(a) Gestures.
(b) Words.
(c) Costumes.
(d) Sounds.

5. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Suspension of disbelief.
(c) Lie.
(d) Structure.

6. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
(a) Words.
(b) Vibrations.
(c) Gestures.
(d) Music.

7. Artaud remarks that the problem is that "all true feeling in _____ is untranslatable; translating it would be betraying and dissimulating it."
(a) Reality.
(b) Love.
(c) Emotions.
(d) God.

8. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Physical language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Code.

9. 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) Transcendental.
(b) Ungodly.
(c) Material.
(d) Spiritual.

10. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1720.

11. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Poetry.

12. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Brain and lungs.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Kidneys and lungs.
(d) Heart and gall bladder.

13. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) One year.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Five months.

14. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Smokescreen.
(b) Mirage.
(c) Art.
(d) Mirror.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

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

3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?

4. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?

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

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