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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 suggests that in order to take language to a metaphysical level, it must be reduced to what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Speaking quietly.
(c) Singing.
(d) Incantation.

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

3. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Daughters of Lot.
(b) Fleur de Lis.
(c) Matthew's Assassination.
(d) Rushing Water.

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

5. The "gold" of the theater evokes in the spirit what, according to Artaud?
(a) Absolute and abstract purity.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Answers to man's questions.
(d) True understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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 ____."

3. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

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

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

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