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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. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1920.

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

3. 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) Life.
(c) Words.
(d) Love.

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

5. Of whom does Artaud say, "has nothing to do with the theater and must give way to specialists in its objective and animated sorcery"?
(a) The director.
(b) The author.
(c) The musician.
(d) The actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mise en scene composed of?

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

3. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Artaud write of change and civilization regarding the theater in "No More Masterpieces"?

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

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

7. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?

8. What does the author claim is the reasoning behind why the public is turning away from the "higher" arts in "No More Masterpieces"?

9. Who does Artaud hold responsible for much of the "masterpieces" he wants to demolish? Why?

10. What is the "perversion" of the theater of the west, according to the author?

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