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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Orphic Mysteries.
(b) The Metamorphoses.
(c) The Dionysian stories.
(d) The Odyssey.

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

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

4. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(b) Heaven and Hell.
(c) A world of artistic vision.
(d) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.

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

6. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Psychological responses.
(b) Gutteral reactions.
(c) God-like entities.
(d) Spiritual states.

7. Artaud maintains that since classics texts--what we generally call masterpieces--were made in the past, they are only good for what?
(a) The stage.
(b) The museum.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

8. 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 ____."
(a) Science.
(b) Mind.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Magic.

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

10. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Paris.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Rome.

11. Where does the theater of cruelty place the spectator?
(a) At the edge of the stage.
(b) At a distance.
(c) In the minds of the gods.
(d) In the center of the spectacle.

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

13. 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"?
(a) A play.
(b) A scene.
(c) An actor.
(d) Mise en scene.

14. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."
(a) Incapable.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Unwilling.
(d) Justified.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?

3. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

4. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

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

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