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

2. 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?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Gesture.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Magic.

3. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.
(a) Smokescreen.
(b) Art.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Mirage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."

2. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

3. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?

4. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

5. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?

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