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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. 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) Occidental theater.
(b) African theater.
(c) Oriental theater.
(d) American theater.

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

3. In what year was the original Le Theatre et son Double published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1919.

4. In what town does Artaud tell the story of the plague being foreseen by the viceroy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Cagliari.
(d) Amsterdam.

5. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five months.
(d) Six years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

2. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."

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. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

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