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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V. Oriental and Occidental Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Magic.
(c) Gold.
(d) Chemicals.

2. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
(a) Lucy and Desi.
(b) The Marx Brothers.
(c) Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Abbott and Costello.

3. Where does Artaud say "there is no art: things are made for use."
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) Asia.
(d) Mexico.

4. What was the year of the plague of which Artaud tells in "Theater and the Plague"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1720.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1810.

5. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
(a) Mise en scene.
(b) A scene.
(c) A play.
(d) An actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of the Balinese theater that "the sense of a new _________ based upon signs and no longer upon words, is liberated."

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

3. Artaud writes that to "restore [theater] to its original direction, to reinstate it in its religious and metaphysical aspect, is to reconcile it with ______."

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

5. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.

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