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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) Five years.
(b) Five months.
(c) Six years.
(d) One year.

2. Artaud writes that Occidental theater is a theater of what?
(a) Ritual.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Imagery.

3. In his Preface, Artaud writes that "It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to" what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Love.
(c) Order.
(d) Civilization.

4. Artaud writes in the Preface that "A civilized man judges and is judged according to his" what?
(a) Letters.
(b) Behavior.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Thoughts.

5. In the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
(a) Performance.
(b) Language.
(c) Reason.
(d) Order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theater must do what in order to reconstruct itself on a layer of its own virtual reality?

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

3. Artaud claims that while Occidental theater is focused on the psychological, Oriental theater focuses on what?

4. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?

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

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