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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 claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?
(a) The music.
(b) The spiritual.
(c) The realistic.
(d) The metaphysical.

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

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

4. What is the name of the ship in Artaud's metaphor of the plague?
(a) Calgiari.
(b) Grand-Saint-Antoine.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Saint-Remys.

5. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
(a) Magic.
(b) Mind.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Science.

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. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?

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

4. Artaud suggests that "true theater" should not mirror human life but instead should evoke what?

5. Artaud suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?

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