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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. 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."
(a) Mechanization.
(b) Science.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Artistry.

2. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?
(a) Heart and gall bladder.
(b) Pancreas and heart.
(c) Brain and lungs.
(d) Kidneys and lungs.

3. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Sappho.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Odysseus.

4. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Hans Vernswarth.
(c) Lucas van den Leyden.
(d) Andres Michaeleas.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the term "Occidental" mean?

3. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

4. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.

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

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