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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 Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Paris.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Rome.

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

3. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Beauty and language.
(c) Religious and mystic.
(d) Aesthetic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?

2. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

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 suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

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

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