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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. 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?
(a) Esprit.
(b) Rioutet.
(c) Jouissis.
(d) L'amour.

2. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The realistic.
(b) The spiritual.
(c) The music.
(d) The metaphysical.

3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

4. What animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cows.
(c) Cats.
(d) Swine.

5. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A disaster.
(b) An actor.
(c) A god.
(d) A mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."

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

3. 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?

4. In Balinese theater, voice and speech are given an entirely new role, in part because the power of the director, or __________ of a play is absolute.

5. 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?

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