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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. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Incantation.
(c) Speaking quietly.
(d) Singing.

2. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1938.

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

4. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Religious and mystic.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Beauty and language.

5. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Rushing Water.
(b) Daughters of Lot.
(c) Matthew's Assassination.
(d) Fleur de Lis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

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

4. The author of Occidental theater is replaced by what in Balinese theater?

5. 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."

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