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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mise en scene composed of?

2. What, along with theater scripted in words, must disappear because it loses its value as soon as it is repeated?

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

4. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.

5. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commonality does Artaud assert between Alchemy and the theater?

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

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

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

5. What is the principle limitation of the current theater, as described by the author in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

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

8. What is the "reality" of the Balinese theater, according to Artaud?

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

10. How does Artaud draw the comparison between the theater and a plague?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the term "metaphysics." Define this term and relate how the author uses it regarding the theater.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Balinese Theater. What are its key attributes? What of the Balinese Theater did Artaud seek to recreate?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of "culture" in society and life according to Artaud. How does the theater relate to this culture?

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