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

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

3. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Hyroglyphs.
(c) Gods.
(d) Poems.

4. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is abstract.
(b) It is real.
(c) It exists on stage.
(d) It is anarchy.

5. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Structure.
(c) Suspension of disbelief.
(d) Lie.

Short Answer 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?

2. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

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

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

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