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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. On the Balinese Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Have no taste.
(b) Are barbaric.
(c) Smell bad.
(d) Are uncouth.

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Marx Brothers.
(b) Abbott and Costello.
(c) Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Lucy and Desi.

3. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Cagliari.

4. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."
(a) Beast.
(b) Monster.
(c) Puppet.
(d) Parent.

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

2. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

3. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?

4. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?

5. Of the performers of the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "They are like huge _____ full of lines and segments drawn to connect them with an unknown natural perspective of which they seem nothing more than a, kind of detached geometry."

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