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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. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Lord Bastillion.
(b) DuPlace.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Saint-Remys.

2. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Pantheon.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

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

4. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Order.
(b) Performance.
(c) Reason.
(d) Language.

5. What "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?
(a) Oriental theater.
(b) American theater.
(c) African theater.
(d) Occidental theater.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

3. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

5. 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?

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