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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Mind.
(b) Science.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Magic.

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) Emotion.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Aestheticism.
(d) Knowlege.

5. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of a complete and fundamental renewal of the art of theater is the respect and admiration that we have for the what?
(a) Directors.
(b) Music.
(c) Actors.
(d) Classic texts.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. 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 ____".

3. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

5. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the sources of the essays in "The Balinese Theater"?

2. How does Artaud associate culture and art?

3. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical Theater"?

4. What is the meaning behind the title of "The Theater and Its Double"?

5. What replaces the playwright in the Balinese Theater? How is this figure described?

6. What does "gold" represent in Artaud's analogy of "The Alchemical Theater"?

7. In what reference does Artaud comment on Plato in "The Alchemical Theater"?

8. What does Artaud say in reference to totems in his Preface?

9. What did Saint-Remys do following his dream of the plague?

10. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"

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