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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 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."
(a) Transcient.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Subliminal.

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

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

4. Artaud writes, "We are told that the Mysteries of ______ confined themselves to the mise en scene of a certain number of moral truths."
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Sappho.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?

3. Where is the painting Artaud speaks of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?

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

5. 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?

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