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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Metteur en scène.
(b) Dictator.
(c) Raison d'etre.
(d) Mais de scene.

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Saint-Remys.
(b) Lord Bastillion.
(c) DuPlace.
(d) Artaud.

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

4. 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 ____".
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Words.
(d) Life.

5. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Southern.
(b) African.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Western.

6. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Ritual.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Dialogue.

7. In order for theater to resume its necessary role, we must reverse the roles of the text and the ________.
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) Director.
(c) Stage.
(d) Actor.

8. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Africa.

9. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Director."
(b) "Comedian."
(c) "Tragic actor."
(d) "Poet."

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

11. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
(a) True gesture.
(b) Old language and forms of expression.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Musical contribution.

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

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

14. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
(a) Art.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Religion.
(d) Truth.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

2. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."

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

5. 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?

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