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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. 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) Occidental theater.
(d) African theater.

2. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Ritual.

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

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

5. In the Preface, Artaud writes, "If confusion is the sign of the times, I see at the root of this confusion a rupture between things and ____".
(a) Life.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Words.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of the virus resulted in the deaths of more people than the previous plague?

2. What is the mise en scene composed of?

3. 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."

4. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

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

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