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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through II. Metaphysics and the Mise en Scène.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Smell bad.
(b) Have no taste.
(c) Are barbaric.
(d) Are uncouth.

3. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Calgiari.
(b) Saint-Remys.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Grand-Saint-Antoine.

4. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

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

4. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?

5. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?

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