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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. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
3. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
4. In the preface, Artaud makes an analogy remarking that we (white Europeans) are unaware that to anyone else, we might be the ones who what?
5. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the principle limitation of the current theater, as described by the author in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
2. What is the meaning behind the title of "The Theater and Its Double"?
3. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
4. How does Artaud associate culture and art?
5. What are the sources of the essays in "The Balinese Theater"?
6. What did Saint-Remys do following his dream of the plague?
7. What does Artaud write of civilization and culture in his Preface?
8. What commonality does Artaud assert between Alchemy and the theater?
9. What is the "perversion" of the theater of the west, according to the author?
10. What are the author's feelings about psychology and the theater? What of poetry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "The Alchemical Theater," the author uses another metaphor. Describe this metaphor as it applies to the theater.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the concept of "archetypes." What is an archetype? How does Artaud envision their use in the theater?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the terms "art" and "aestheticism." What does Artaud write of the Western Theater's confusion of these terms?
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