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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) Lord Bastillion.
(b) Artaud.
(c) DuPlace.
(d) Saint-Remys.

2. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Performance.
(b) Language.
(c) Reason.
(d) Order.

3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The metaphysical.
(b) The realistic.
(c) The music.
(d) The spiritual.

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

5. 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) Are barbaric.
(b) Smell bad.
(c) Have no taste.
(d) Are uncouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

2. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."

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

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

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

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