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

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Create magic.
(b) Permit language.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Imbue poetry.

3. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Answers to man's questions.
(b) True understanding.
(c) Absolute and abstract purity.
(d) Poetry.

4. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Behavior.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Letters.
(d) Thoughts.

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."
(a) Gods.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Men.
(d) Insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

2. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

3. Of the Balinese theater, Artaud remarks that "setting aside the prodigious mathematics of this spectacle, what seems most surprising and astonishing to us is this aspect of matter as" what?

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

5. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

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