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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. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."
(a) Code.
(b) Physical language.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Religion.

2. In the Balinese theater, Artaud writes "The drama does not develop as a conflict of feelings but as a conflict of" what?
(a) Gutteral reactions.
(b) God-like entities.
(c) Psychological responses.
(d) Spiritual states.

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

4. Artaud writes, "it is the _______ that is the theater much more than the written and spoken play."
(a) Actor.
(b) Performance.
(c) Mise en scene.
(d) Director.

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."
(a) Science.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Mechanization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

2. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

3. 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."

4. 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."

5. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."

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