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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) Speaking quietly.
(c) Singing.
(d) Incantation.

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

3. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?
(a) Daily life.
(b) The supernatural.
(c) The transcendent.
(d) The magical.

4. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Letters.
(c) Behavior.
(d) Poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?

3. 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?

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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