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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 animal does the author say has a mysterious affinity with the plague?
(a) Cows.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Swine.

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

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

4. Where was the ship from that came to dock on the island of Artaud's metaphor?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Africa.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Beirut.

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) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

3. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

4. Artaud compares totemism to what in the Preface?

5. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?

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