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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 compares totemism to what in the Preface?
(a) A mask.
(b) A disaster.
(c) An actor.
(d) A god.

2. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
(a) The Dionysian stories.
(b) The Orphic Mysteries.
(c) The Metamorphoses.
(d) The Odyssey.

3. What does the term "Occidental" mean?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Western.
(c) African.
(d) Southern.

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

5. On what island does Artaud's metaphor of the plague take place?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Monte Blanc.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?

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

3. What does Artaud say serves as a copy, or double, of a life that does not exist?

4. 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 ____".

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

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