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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III. The Alchemical Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?
(a) Create magic.
(b) Permit language.
(c) Imbue poetry.
(d) Destroy everything.

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

4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Mind.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Science.
(d) Magic.

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Absolute and abstract purity.
(c) True understanding.
(d) Answers to man's questions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two organs are the most affected and atrophied by the plague?

3. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

4. Artaud believes that in its current, Occidental interpretation, theater is limited to mimicking what through scripted dialogues?

5. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?

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