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

2. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

3. In Artaud's metaphor for the plague, where did the ship end up docking?
(a) Rome.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Paris.
(d) Marseilles.

4. Which form of the theater does Artaud admire in contrast to Occidental forms?
(a) English.
(b) Balinese.
(c) American.
(d) Italian.

5. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Poet."
(b) "Comedian."
(c) "Director."
(d) "Tragic actor."

Short Answer Questions

1. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?

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