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

2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
(a) Lord Bastillion.
(b) Saint-Remys.
(c) DuPlace.
(d) Artaud.

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

4. 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) Occidental theater.
(b) American theater.
(c) Oriental theater.
(d) African theater.

5. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?

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

4. What sense has contemporary theater lost, according to Artaud?

5. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

(see the answer key)

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