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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 Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?
(a) Magic.
(b) Vocal tones.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Gestures.

2. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?
(a) American.
(b) Australian.
(c) Oriental.
(d) African.

3. 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) Mathematics.
(b) Mechanization.
(c) Science.
(d) Artistry.

4. In the Balinese theater, which figure becomes a "manager of magic" or master of "sacred ceremonies"?
(a) The audience.
(b) The actor.
(c) The director.
(d) The set designer.

5. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?
(a) A world of the gods and goddesses of old.
(b) A reality where humans must have little influence or effect.
(c) A world of artistic vision.
(d) Heaven and Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud says that the actors of the Balinese theater appear to be as animated what?

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

3. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."

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

5. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

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