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

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

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

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

5. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Hans Vernswarth.
(b) Lucas van den Leyden.
(c) Andres Michaeleas.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?

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

3. In the Preface, Artaud writes of his belief that "no matter how loudly we clamor for magic in our lives, we are really _____ of pursuing an existence entirely under its influence and sign."

4. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?

5. Artaud writes of the comparison of theater to alchemy, "It is that alchemy and the theater are so to speak _____ arts, and do not carry their end--or their reality within themselves."

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